I never change, except in my affections.

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.

Predictions are preposterous.

When we love the stars light up, the wrong becomes undone. Naturally, my soul surrenders.

I'm more of a house painter.That's the way I work.

The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning.

We brought nothing into this world and it's certain we can carry nothing out.

It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork.

Nobody asks you to do this. The world out there is not panting after another novelist. We choose it

I believe in the devil as much as God. You can use either one to get things done

A foolish man in wealth and authority is like a weak-timbered house with a too-ponderous roof.

We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.