Talent borrows, genius steals!

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.

As swords were designed to killThey did well to make them tongue-shaped.(Anwar-i-Suhaili)

If you fall into troubles, it is not that you did something wrong. It is because the universe wants to prepare you for a better life by making you strong.

Patriotism is the primary moral armor of our ground combatants.

Jealousy is a rather enjoyable emotion to watch.

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

The House of Lords must go - not be reformed, not be replaced, not be reborn in some nominated life-after-death patronage paradise, just closed down, abolished, finished.

I really like listening to music when I'm hiking or exercising. I don't like hearing myself breathe.

Language is wine upon the lips.

I think experience has shown that privateers have done more toward distressing the trade of our enemies, and furnishing these States with necessaries, than Continental Ships of the same force.

The only reason I would write a break-up song is because my own problem of allowing myself to relate to people.