Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.

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.

...Mary, fresh with feminist appropriations, has the potential to undergird women’s reformations.

When you believe your lie, it will curse your life forever.

There is something divine in mindless beauty.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.

Takin' out my freak tonight

The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them.

I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere.

Every moment is enormous and it is all we have.

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.