Life is like a box of terrible analogies.

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.

As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.

To be wrecked begins with an experience that pulls you out of your comfort zone and self-centeredness, whether you want it or not.

Beauty more than bitterness Makes the heart break.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?

There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep.

I sing songs that I have lived or I write them because I have lived them. I think the believability factor is key.

The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy.

The only person who is going to give you security and the life you want is you.