I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

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.

It is rooted deep in your bones

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

I felt the human disease that is ignorance suddenly leave my body. Just like that. Like a hot, desperate piss after a long car ride.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.

I think that extreme right wing views are not what the American people are looking for right now. They want to see us create jobs.

Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits.

Most grievous of all deaths it is to die of hunger.

Being joyful is a choice.