Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.

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.

Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.

People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.

Much later, Alice would wonder what might have happened if she had gone to bed when she was supposed to.

We have a master who deserves radical sacrifice.

But what's the good of freedom? What can you do with it? What one wants is to live well and have a beautiful house and be respected by people.

Humankind is innocent, loving, and creative, you dig? It's the bureaucracies that create the evil, that make Honor and Community impossible, and it's the kids who really take it in the groin.

If I have a weakness, it's for timepieces - if I see one I like and can afford it, I'll buy it.

Like Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, and so many others before me, sexual imagery has always been a part of my photography.

Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn.