One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.

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.

But this room looked like it had been decorated by the unholy lovechild of Barbie and Strawberry Shortcake.

When its time has come the prey goes to the hunter.

I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

I gotta feel alive, even if it kills me. Promise to always give you me, the real me.

He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.

The Killer instinct is not perceived by words, but by look.

We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.

Raising children is a journey generously sprinkled with what many view as teachable moments, perhaps none as challenging as those surrounding faith and religion.

Without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely to be worth the journey. Persist.