Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.

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.

Reading is at the threshold of the spiritual life

He's soft and strong at the same time

Eastlake High makes Buffy's hellmouth look like a crack in the sidewalk.

I have always noticed in politics how often men are ruined by having too good a memory.

My children are all doing just fine. The mountain dogs are great in this weather. The yorkies are freezing.

Valentine, just a few words to tell you how I love you. I have loved you since the first day I saw you. Whenever that was.

You have to be smart enough to see the world for yourself and honest. The whole book-publicity thing is not really honest, at base.

Take a look at the number of Bibles on your shelf. Think how grateful you are for the help you've received from various Bible translations and editions over the years.

You see people swimming, and you think, oh, how wonderful to swim. But most people stand on the edge swaying back and forth, afraid to jump. They don't think they can swim.

But Americans are different from everyone else in the world - except the Canadians, and Americans are more different from the Canadians than they often think.