It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

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.

Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start- the way a map that shows too much can sometimes be useless.

I've been advised not to have any more children for medical reasons, so that's it - the shop has closed, even though I would have loved a daughter.

Work hard. There is no short cut.

O felt that her mouth was beautiful, since her lover condescended to thrust himself into it . . .

Beauty is not required. Beauty is accuracy's distraction.

Opportunities, creative ideas or the lack of them, happiness, frustration, brilliance, talent, success and failure - all are determined by the state of mind that you're in.

I like to look for patterns, in science and life. It’s what I do.

If you can do only a little. Do what you can. What you cannot enforce, do not command.

Everybody could write, deejay, rap. Everybody could do it all.

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.