Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

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.

I’ve been going through my own personal hell.

You can never be defeated in life, you are a learner.

Don't get impatient when it takes too long.

All power is in essence power to deny mortality.

Senator Kerry voted to undermine the troops in the field, and that is not only inexcusable, it is reprehensible.

I just make the music, and people have the say. When I'm making songs, I never call them hits.

President Barack Obama has it right - there is a lot to change about Washington. The problem is, not much will get changed unless we confront the runaway filibuster in the U.S. Senate.

I have a complicated relationship with non-human animals. I've never really been close to one.

All audiences should be slightly off balance.

No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.