I was very much disappointed in the Atlantic Ocean.

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.

This is what I miss, Cordelia: not something that’s gone, but something that will never happen. Two old women giggling over their tea.

My head is full of seeing you see me.

By helping yourself, you are helping humankind. By helping humankind, you are helping yourself. That's the law of all spiritual progress.

Sweden is still a very peaceful country to live in. I think that people in Britain have created this mythology about Sweden, that it's a perfect democratic society full of erotically charged girls.

What will come, will come; you just have to be there to meet it.

Teams that play together beat those with superior players who play more as individuals.

I'm not as bearish as many others about China. Why? Because China must grow. So I am far more optimistic about China.

Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.

A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.

You’re like a gift,” he said, his voice rough. “All wrapped up for someone else. A man can’t look at you, but think of loosing those bows, one by one.