Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

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.

Civilians enjoy their time because soldiers sacrifice their time.

I live my life as defined by God.

The paradox of faith is that when we conform our lives to Christ then we gain our true freedom. And its fruit is profound and lasting happiness.

The more we get what we now call 'ourselves' out of the way and let Him take us over, the more truly ourselves we become.

A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it owes someone thanks.

Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.

I don't know what my limitations are until I reach them. I look for the challenge.

At the bottom of all patriotism there is war: that is why I am no patriot.

The separation of state and church must be complemented by the separation of state and science, that most recent, most aggressive, and most dogmatic religious institution.

People in distress behave in a stressful way. They aren't all sweetness and light. They don't behave well when they are unhappy. That's just what I've observed.