Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

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.

NEVER BE SO BUSY BEING THE LIGHT FOR OTHERS THAT YOU NEGLECT TO SHINE ON YOURSELF

Positive, truthful and helping people always get rewards. Oneness, love, compassion and enlightenment can be attained by following the spiritual laws of the universe." -Hina Hashmi

No one plants rosebushes for the thorns.

...and the women spread their ntsaroz and sit on one side, the men on the other, like they are two different rivers that are not supposed to meet.

The essential truth of life, he was coming to realize, wasn't romantic an took only two words to label: Shit. Happens.

I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song.

I'm a big root beer guy.

I have to finish it in order to know whether it deserves to survive.

All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most.