The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.

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.

The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.

I shall never be very merry or very sad, for I am more prone to analyse than to feel.

Only adversity provides the opportunity for greatness.

Motherhood was my career. I'm totally satisfied with that.

There's innate competition, I think, between mothers and daughters - mine no more so than anyone else.

The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.

Do all you can to preach the gospel and if necessary use words!

When two cultures collide is the only time when true suffering exists.

I'll always touch you.

I really don't like take-out.