It would be unfair to expect other people to be as brilliant as oneself.

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.

If you are going to speak out against injustice, if you are angry at ungodliness in the society, then you have the opposing force to contend against.

I sometimes wonder about this True-Love thing and I get confused. Love--as I now understand it--has to be true if it's there.

The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man necessitates the injury of another.

He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand.

I like the way Mahler wandered about in his music and still retained his passion. He must have looked like an earthquake walking down the street.

The British playwright Nina Raine is one of her generation's most promising talents.

Getting the support of Syria is the moral equivalent of winning the Klan's endorsement - it might be useful but it doesn't necessarily speak well of you.

Oh! Your hand is cold." Ashley cupped her fingers against her shirt to warm them. "I've been dead for seven years," Noah said. "That's as warm as they get.

If you're really on some heavily addictive drug, you think about the drug, and everything else is secondary. You try and make everything work, but the drug comes first.

It is at the cross-roads that skepticism is born, not in a hermitage.