I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Cheating on self, is a paralysis of being.

Happiness can be as close as your next thought.

Most of your healing journey will be about unlearning the patterns of self-protection that once kept you safe.

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

Poetry is the report of a nuance between two moments, when people say, 'Listen!' and 'Did you see it?' 'Did you hear it? What was it?'

A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.

When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find out that it is the same in all her music.

I think you just have to appreciate who you are and hopefully they can see what a superhero is about.

Only a few of us will admit it, but actors will sometimes read a script like this: bullshit...bullshit...my part...blah, blah, blah...my part...bullshit.

Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.