If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

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.

Anyone who wishes to destroy humanity's past, desires to destroy its future.

I don’t mind being alone either. The only problem is that if you’re always alone, you get lonely.

If you have no destination, you'll never get there.

The Method is Judeo-Christian: if you go through pain, you can't miss. Rubbish. I'm more interested in the box itself than what's in it. How vs why.

Legendary service is one of the criteria that sets one company apart from its competitors. It's the mark of a truly authentic company - you just can't fake caring!

I mean the world is a place where it feels like a woman has to go out everywhere in society, you have to buy her and cook her a meal and stuff.

I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know.

That's the real secret to job creation - not borrowing and spending more money in Washington.

When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.

I fought a bear once. But it started crying, so I let it off.