The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

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 atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.

The shortest horror story:The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.

The drive toward economic nationalism is only part of the general revival of nationalism.

None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.

The grand instructor, time.

If nobody ever offers an opinion or takes the slightest interest in one's production, one loses not only all pleasure in them, but all power of judging their value.

The nasheeds I do are for children, the youth, and for the older people.

I look a little like Beaker. I think I'm a cross between Beaker and The Count. My hair looks like Oscar the Grouch. It's Muppety hair.

immortality is a terrible curse.

Don't be normal. Be an example.