It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it.

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.

You cannot be a friend to someone else, if you do not have a friendship with yourself.

Your Misunderstanding creates your Understanding!

Never mind the stillness -the deep sleeps to

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees but what he feels what he tells himself about what he has seen.

People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, there's only me and the cameraman.

Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical.

Never go for the money. You have to match the job and your values so you can bring your whole self.

Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.

You're never really happy. I'm certainly not. That's a good thing. It means you're always striving to do better. You hope the next piece will be better.

What problems?" "Well for starters.. you're an evil duck killer.