In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

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.

Learn not from imitating but from emulating.

When I think about books, I touch my shelf.

You can’t separate desperate politicians from violence and trouble.

The fact is there are few more popular subjects than mathematics. Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune.

Tell freedom I said hello.

My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.

At school I was very shy. I wasn't funny really.

I wish they made fajita cologne, because that stuff smells good. What's that you're wearing? That's sizzlin'!

I am black, so with my writing and my voice, you get that kind of dialect.

When you have a choice whether to be be right or to be kind, choose to be kind.