It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.

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.

We can rely on the righteous Ruler.

It was the moment I heard your laughter. The moment I heard us laughing, two cascades in the middle of a desert, careless and uninhibited.

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing compared to self-swindlers.

Only the luckless, the petty or the deranged [end] up in court.

Surfing music is dead. It was just a summer craze for kids on the beach. I'm finished with it.

Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species.

I have a theory that theories are destructive.

The moment we glorify ourselves, since there is room for one glory only in the universe, we set ourselves up as rivals to the Most High.

I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side.

He never wanted love, though. You cannot eat love, nor buy a horse with it, nor warm your halls on a cold night.