I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

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.

Consider One Thing Always, We Are Just Selected".

Goals are the source of misery. An unattained goal causes pain, but actually achieving it brings only a brief satisfaction.

What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

I haven't really addressed those rumors because why defend yourself against something that isn't offensive?

I love fishing and surfing, and I work out every day.

Some stories don't have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.

I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the same hand, and we have the same soul.

Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.

Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.