One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

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.

It's ugly, but is it art?

Somehow your heart still knows me.

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.

We are all self-made men and women, but only the successful take credit for it.

The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.

Music is largely psychic. It is a feeling. It is not logical. It is a feeling - Art, life, why we live - feelings.

A good question is, of course, the key by which infinite answers can be educed.

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends.

I think I couldn't do what I do [live without money] without studying economics, because you need to understand the system first - how it currently works - in order to change it.

I like it when pessimism goes unrewarded.