Lawyers have been known to wrest from reluctant juries triumphant verdicts of acquittal for their clients, even when those clients, as often happens, were clearly and unmistakably innocent.

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.

Perfection is fragile

Love is implicit in every connection. It should be. Thus when absent it makes us insane. (You Shall Know Our Velocity)

I gave you the best of me.

A true smile is when the mouth and the heart coordinate with each other.

O come all ye faithful, Joyful and triumphant, O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem.

People are innocent till proven otherwise. All people are.

The lower your self-esteem, the more apt you are to believe that someone else holds the key to your happiness.

I've also done things that put me in odd situations.

What foolsmiddle-classgirls are to expect other people to respect the same gods as themselves and E M Forster.

I have maintained that the people of India are ahead of their governments. The people of India are at least 10 to 15 years ahead of their governments.