The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides 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.

You've made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.

They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties.

By undertaking many things, I have accomplished nothing.

I actually love working with accents. I don't know, something about it unlocks something in me. It makes me concentrate on getting into character a little more, helps me find a focus.

Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil.

To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.

All the seemingly positive valuations and judgments of ressentiment are hidden devaluations and negations.

If you love the roses, that is ordinary; if you love the weeds, that is extraordinary! Rather than being common, be extraordinary!

Knowing when it is over is the beginning of a new life and the end of an old one.

Harlem is a stage. It's like its own planet, from the way we dress to the swag in the way we walk and talk.