The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.

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.

When you go through a bad relationship and finally dust yourself off, there's a vulnerability that goes along with that.

Life is a beautiful dream.

You are human and fallible.

He who cherishes the value of cultures cannot fail to be a pacifist.

I resolved from the beginning of my quest that I would not be misled by sentiment and desire into beliefs for which there was no good evidence.

When God has assigned you, He knows where and when to find you.

The so-called right to privacy, as it were, is no longer a right inasmuch as it is now a privilege, to be enjoyed until it is torn away at a moment’s notice.

That is the great contribution of Reformed thinking to the Christian church: theology for a life well-lived.

(Francis) Bacon's best known writings are his essays. They are loved for many reasons, such as their being so short.

Yoga is the method to bring or uncover the union that exists. That all things are relative and are in relationship and that nothing is singular or by itself.