I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.

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.

Be drunk in love and high on life.

Most people are living for today with barely a thought of eternity.

He had not escaped the guilt, nor forgotten it, but how pale it seemed in light of all he had suffered for love of his brother and his brother's wife in these past few years.

The best way to keep your daughter out of hot water is to put some dishes in it.

Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.

I was surprised when I finally moved to Boston and the East Coast, to discover that there weren't that many vibraphone players around. And I was the only one playing with four mallets.

We are all guilty in someone's eyes. More so our own.

If white privilege is a thing, why are people working so hard to be black? All of the award shows and cultural events favor black culture.

If you don't work on important problems, it's not likely that you'll do important work.

The camera may do justice to laughter, but must degrade sorrow.