One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.

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.

Getting wet in the rain will not make you happy always.

I consider whoever my words land on to be my target, that’s why I like flash fiction, it’s a lot like using a shotgun.

I think the only way to behave is as if nothing is private. And then fight to make what you care about legal and acceptable.

Christians are directed to have faith in Christ, as the effectual means of obtaining the change they desire.

One of the key problems is that the Germans know what they do because everywhere they go there's a 'made in Germany' label on it - they can feel proud of Volkswagens and Audis and Mercedes.

I'm ashamed of what has happened to Canada. And I'm not leaving a $1.5 trillion deficit to my kids. No chance in hell is that happening.

I'm a weirdo. I don't leave the house unless I have to.

Time passes so slowly if you are unaware of it and so quickly if you are aware of it.

I know there are some voices calling for a punitive deal that punishes Britain. That would be an act of calamitous self-harm for the countries of Europe, and it would not be the act of a friend.