No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.

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.

James Tilly Matthews was not a prophet. He was a gifted, perhaps fragile individual who suffered intensely, and for little if any reward.

This world is a comedy to those who think a tragedy to those who feel.

It's amazing what miracles and little angels and pure love around you can bring out.

Israel must be able to defend itself - by itself - against any threat.

Ah, but you see, I didn't want to be fair.

A light exists in Spring Not present in the year at any other period When March is scarcely here.

The origin and the causes of disease are far too recondite for the human mind to unravel them.

Tape is the archiving champ and has been for decades. Reliable, less expensive than disks and available in large-scale robotic systems that store petabytes.

She stroked my hair and told me I was beautiful, but I was old enough by then to know not to believe it anymore.

Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.