Nothing worth learning can ever be taught

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.

...those who break the law should be loved more and not less for their sin, for if we do not forgive then is sin added to sin and the end is death.

Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics.

I was quite pleased that Prince Philip didn't say anything like, I hate queers! He was quite well behaved.

They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.

The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.

Lots of people let it go by and never accomplish what they want. I just wanted to see what I could do.

My parents had always been so careful with me, until the day they decided I needed to die.

Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.

A good writer must be like the birds of a dark forest; you can't see them, but you can hear their mysterious and wise voices!

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.