Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?

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.

Remember, it is ultimately your mind which makes anything attractive or unattractive. It is you who is the deciding factor.

I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

So it's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially.

You can't think the thoughts you want to think if you think you're being watched.

When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual.

I typically get around to most major cities at least once a year. I think people see that as their chance to go nuts for the year if they're into the style of music.

The biggest thing as I have gotten older is the calmness that's come over me.

It's easier and sociabler to talk technique than it is to make art.

I was certain I was going to do something in sports.

Life is in the here and now. Either we meet it, we live it-or we miss it.