The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction.

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.

Die Einsicht eines Menschen verleiht ihre Flügel keinem anderen.

Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.

Love can’t cover over the sins we cover up…If you want God and others to cover over your sin, stop covering it up.

Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.

Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.

The first time I went to therapy, I had to stop going because they were making me hate my parents.

A lot of people have used the frog splash over the years. Every one else that used it is a four star frog splash, when RVD did it, it became a five star frog splash.

There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.

I have made a short excursion into the new world which the Indian dwells in, or is. He begins where we leave off.

Life is a process which may be abstracted from other media.