My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

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.

Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessarycondition for knowledge.

We are the future

Never trust a promise

We should have no regrets. ... The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know.

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

I'm concerned about getting Iraq on its feet.

Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.

She was the light of our lives, our anchor, compass and vision.

If you're Obama, can you imagine being lectured to about honesty and integrity from a convicted perjurer, Bill Clinton? My gosh, folks, I mean, literally how far has one fallen when that is the case?