Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.

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.

Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.

If you can allow colour to breathe, to occupy its own space, to play its own game in its unstable way, it's wanton behaviour, so to speak. It is promiscuous like nothing.

I'm a bit of a deconstructionist myself. It's kind of exciting - the last intellectual thrill left. Like sawing through the branch you're sitting on.

I used to sketch - that's the way I thought out loud. Then they made a book of my sketches, and I got self-conscious, so now I don't do it much.

I've always looked at friends as the family we choose.

A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places.

It was more exciting when I didn't know I had permission.

We like to invent new disciplines or look at new problems, and invent bandwagons rather than jump on them.

Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams. Happiness is a direction, not a place.

Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!