Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.

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.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better.

There are many more layers to innocence than one might ever imagine, and we are ever unaware of them until each barrier is breached.

The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.

If you're manic-depressive and you're functioning in this world and doing it all well, I think, wow, you should be proud of being able to say, this is what I'm getting through right now.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

When you're up against the clock and break-outs are happening, all the time, and it's literally rushing in on you, you do what you have to do.

I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all.

I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.

Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.