I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

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.

The moment-when I could no longer face myself in the mirror-wasn't easily explained

I reckon being ill is one of the greatest pleasures of life provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.

I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.

I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same

There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool.

Your talk of sniffling riders with invisible noses has unsettled me.

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

If you became a comedian in the '80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating.

I would have Simon Cowell sing 'Shiny Happy People' by R.E.M. just to show his true personality.

Rather than finding the devil "out there," we battle the devil within us. The revolution starts inside each of us.