Society exists only as a mental concept in the real world there are only individuals.

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.

Depression isn't a condition, it's a state of mind.

There is a sacred lesson in any situation.

He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him), and took a sort of pleasure in thinking that human affairs would never improve.

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

I am very much enjoying the fatherhood phase of my life.

There's no place you can go on the prairie that you don't hear the white noise of the wind, steady and rough as surf curling along a non-existant shore.

When you walk on the beach at night, you can say things you can't say in real life.

I've always thought my flowers had souls.

I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.

I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'm sort of, you know, hideous.