Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce.

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.

For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.

For children in their most impressionable years, there is, in fantasy, the highest of stimulating and educational powers.

My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin.

Marriage is a leap of faith. You are each other's safety net.

…only a poet could frame a language that could frame a world.

I've learned a lot about how people have to fight through their whole lives just to be themselves.

He scowled at me."You aren't any fun." "Party pooper extraordinaire,that's me.

Marie Antoinette. Her last words were,"Pardon me sir. I did not mean to do it,"to a man whose foot she stepped on before she was executed by the guillotine

I can't claim to feel like I've been under some man's thumb in comedy. I've sort of always done my own thing for better or worse, and have been lucky enough to be able to perform ever since.

Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not.