Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.

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.

Not one of the learned gentlemen who pretend that the Mosaic laws are filled with justice and intelligence, would live, for a moment, in any country where such laws were in force.

Inspiration is the most radiant and flourishing expression of our authenticity.

Christ - an anarchist who succeeded.

I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self the more you do.

I can tell when something's real, or when something's put together. I can just feel it.

The Fox knows many things-the hedgehog one big one.

Let go the past, let go the future, and let go the present (front, back, middle). Crossing to the farther shore of existence, with mind released everywhere, do not further undergo birth and decay.

Learning is too precious to be motivated by coercive tactics.

You just have to enjoy life and that's what I like to do.

Again, President Reagan was sort of an amiable presence out at the ranch by the last 6 months of his presidency. He had no effect on national policy at all.