The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

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.

Sand castles just aren't made to last.

Creativity is choice-making.

The sea does not like to be restrained.

Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.

I think my love of journalizing my life comes from my mom.

You don't want to cover a subject; you want to uncover it.

If there had been a Financial Product Safety Commission in place 10 years ago, the current financial crisis would have been averted.

Isn't it better to have your heart broken than to have it wither up? Before it could be broken it must have felt something splendid. That would be worth the pain.

The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both.

The quality of a society will be judged by what the least privileged in it achieves.