People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.

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.

Until one comes who is mightier, The one sprung from misery, The one who was weak, The one who was hunted, The one marked with claw and vine, The one named in secret, The one called Jezelia.

For very few persons are concerned about the way that leads to heaven, but all are anxious to know, before the time, what passes there.

Writing is easy. Writing well is hard work.

What happens to other species also happens to us.

In the past, (GM) produced a lot of very excellent vehicles but somehow they didn't excite anybody.

There's an impression that actors make a lot of choices. I just take what's there.

No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.

I had a brother who died early on - he was 23 when I was 19. And, boy, I certainly didn't expect that. That was utterly shocking.

The individual incentive not to commit crime on Wall Street now is almost zero.

Don't look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.