Life is a great disappointment.

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.

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.

Of course! the path to heavendoesn't lie down in flat miles.It's in the imaginationwith which you perceive this world, and the gestureswith which you honor it.-from The Swan

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Of course, I'd welcome protest. Good criticism is hard to find.

Rather than being taught to ask ourselves who we are, we are schooled to ask others. We are, in effect, trained to listen to others’ versions of ourselves.

A mother's love is supposed to be unconditional. That you could give your child up, over their sexuality, is unthinkable.

I loved 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.' It was such a big part of my childhood.

We often think that tragedies happen because of great earthquakes in people's lives. I think they sometimes occur because of small things that become obsessive to a particular person.

Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse.

Somehow I think that if Toronto had been forced to wait a decade [from 80th], it would be a better looking city.