Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

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.

When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.

This is what labels do. They stick. If people think you're MAD, then everything you do, everything you think will have MAD stamped across it.

No matter how we suffer, we have an obligation to others. We have to be unselfish enough to try to live in the right way, so others can get through their own lives without us fouling them up.

Don't pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it.

Ultimately, thinking is a very inefficient method of processing data.

I have a dad-ager. My dad is really good at the business end of things. But it's really a family affair. My mother handles all my social media stuff - Facebook, Twitter, e-mails, that kind of thing.

And Seinfeld is so quick: we crank out one show a week, and the hours are very reasonable

The power to arrest - to deprive a citizen of liberty - must be used fairly, responsibly, and without bias.

One of the lessons of 9/11 and (Hurricane) Katrina was 'communication, communication, communication, .. We don't want to have to say 'should have, could have, would have.'.

An increase of two or three degrees wouldn't be so bad for a northern country like Russia. We could spend less on fur coats, and the grain harvest would go up.