If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.

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.

(T)he increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.

Humour, like any life skill, is learnable. If others can learn it, so can you.

Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.

It seems to me that any ideology is bad because it is inevitably reductive and identifies other ideologies as evil, and itself with truth, whereas both truth and goodness are always transcendent.

The world lies right beyond the handlebars of any bicycle.

As I recall, my life as a child was so all-consuming that I barely had time to consider the future.

If you record things, you're going to find, patterns of things, and patterns are important, because you can then see the patterns form before it happens.

How many people have you made homesick for God?

Marketing used to be what you say Now, marketing is what you do. What you make. How you act. The choices you make when you are sure no one is looking.

There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is ready and predisposed to receive them.