I won't belong to a club that accepts me as a member

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.

Grandma, please don’t go. I’m frightened., Grandma. I need you!” “…never be afraid, Cassie. There’s nothing frightening in the dark if you just face it…

To stop for years and then discover that the audience is getting smaller and smaller would be demoralizing.

How we ask the question is extremely important to how we find the answer.

I can't afford a whole new set of enemies.

I really hope that the philanthropy movement is seen not just as wealthy people giving money away but wealthy people giving away their time, their energy and their ideas.

I used to want to be the quickest, loudest, and sharpest. I think as time has gone on, I've gotten more relaxed.

Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive to tonalities.

We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

Mutual tolerance is a necessity for all time and for all races.

I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history.