Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

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.

Three Spaniards four opinions.

My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

What's bred in the bone will stick to the flesh.

Love that goes upward is worship; Love that goes outward is affection; Love that stoops is grace.

The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.

The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies waste away.

No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin - only four years older than I am - everything, or what little I could discover about him.

It was like being given a maths problem when your brain's exhausted, and you know there's some far-off solution, but you can't work up the energy even to give it a go. Something in me just gave up.

I pray every day for all who are suffering in Iraq. Please join me.