She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.

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.

But I couldn’t comprehend this making friends business. My friends had always made me.

A game?’ Rob spluttered. ‘A bloody game?’ He turned to face his father. ‘This is your bloody fault! I’m living your bloody karma!

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Mike Patton is a genius... It is definitely the hardest music I've ever played.

I work because I enjoy what I'm doing, and the fact that I make money at it - big money - is a fine-and-dandy side fact.

I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer.

I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.

God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.

My dad was more, "Let's play chess. Read a book, you're stupid." He's more the intellectual type.

Take off the veil of hypnotism which you have cast upon the world, send not out thoughts and words of weakness unto humanity.