Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

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.

All this hurrying from place to place won’t bring you any relief, for you’re traveling in the company of your own emotions, followed by your troubles all the way.

Being a barber is about taking care of the people.

Worldviews are more a mental security blanket than a serious effort to understand the world

Running after balls, diving, taking a home run away, it gives me such a good feeling. I am happy to do it.

Both looked back then on the wild revelry...and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude.

Not only does the world scarcely know who the Latin American man is, the world has barely cared.

During my addled career as a trout fisherman I have gone on a lot of wild-goose chases, and I ruefully expect to go on a lot more before I hang up my waders

In Western-style Communism we would have to create an almost imaginary workers' image of themselves as the father-figure.

My life is a glorious adventure.

Think of the ills from which you are exempt, and it will aid you to bear patiently those which now you may suffer.