One's only real life is the life one never leads.

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.

The possible ranks higher than the actual.

I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I’ve relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.

To dwell means to belong to a given place.

I went from being a Christian missionary to an atheist.

Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides.

My mother is my manager and so knows exactly what I do and so on.

How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!

Do you know what is really embarrassing and makes your pride hurt? Lacking some skill? Not being able to earn some money? It's not that. Fearing something once, and being scared of it forever.

I don't think that an emphasis on the peculiar plight of black males at all suggests that others are not suffering, or that such attention suggests that black men and women feel sorry for themselves.

The cause of war is preparation for war.