Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

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.

Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw.

What you did was not only very kind, but brave and honorable.

In no small part I think all of us kind of look in the mirror and feel good or not feel good about the person we seen in the mirror in no small part because of the jobs we have.

No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.

That's the great thing about big cities: Nobody is judging. You really get a chance to show who you are with your style.

You don't have to do anything to meditate. That's what makes it so difficult. Everybody wants to do something.

In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself

I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.

the illusion never really dissipates that you can lose twenty pounds in one night by cutting out dinner.