Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

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.

And we are made different. On the instant. What we know, what we were, is banished by that instant, razed like a castle under siege, and nothing is recognizable is left. The world is unmade.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience - well, that comes from poor judgment.

As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

Our success and happiness depends not on simply knowing where we stand, but in where we are wanting to go.

As long as we persist in our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow.

Our impulses are our birthright. To alter personality would be unjust, almost criminal, for the impulses that make a fool or worse of us in certain circumstances may be necessary for our happiness.

I really don't use that much make up - I'm pretty natural. I wear even less of it in the summer.

In the beginning, when I was trying to write, I couldnt turn off the outside world to the extent that I can now.

He who leads troops has no right to think about himself.

truth is a letter from courage!