Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.

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.

Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été.

Be driven by your dreams.

I hear your voice, and all feels rightwith the world again.

I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.

I can't tell you what it really is, I can only tell you what it feels like.

I have been disappointed many times, but never defeated.

Dance is about movement and can be an art, but it's also about communication - with yourself, as much as with other people.

I read the New Testament, specifically the gospels and I was struck at their divinity, feeling that humans could not have figured this out on their own. We're just not bright enough.

Some things are taken away from you, some you leave behind and some you carry with you, world without end.