Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.

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.

Read. You can always talk with another reader.

I'm living life as best I can - but I'm not exempt from failure and making bad choices.

How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?

What we do as a society is seek simple answers.

Military commanders do not want to be tried for war crimes, even if those crimes are committed online.

You are only afriad if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!

By seeking and blundering we learn.

And I seek people who break rules with happiness — and not bringing pain to themselves.

Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.

Who knew three dots could make such a difference? Like everything else, a love or a wish or whatever, it was all in the way you read it.