One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

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 our few good times will be rare because we have the critical senseand are not easy to fool with laughter

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

There is a garbage culture out there, where we pour garbage on people. Then the pollsters run around and take a poll and say, do you smell anything?

A good many men and women want to get possession of secrets just as spendthrifts want to get money-for circulation.

The ability to experience and understand what others feel without confusion between oneself and others.

When I was Governor, Louis Kelso went out of his way to brief me. I was very impressed, but I was never able to get any of the economists in state government to give him the help his plan deserves.

Because, also the world of showbiz is not just black and white, good and bad.

To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

I don't want an opportunity to go missing because of my lack of organization.

...Vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.