The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.

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 win them to what you win them with.

As a pediatric neurosurgeon, I frequently faced life and death situations, and had to come up with the right diagnosis, the right plan, and execute that plan frequently with other colleagues.

When I set goals, they're more tangible than becoming famous. You don't build a company or a foundation for fame.

It's not about Obama, it's about the Democrats and their policies that cause consternation on the right.

Never lose your childish enthusiasm and things will come your way.

It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs.

So you know, my plan was that I was going to make records, and be a rock star. And that's really what I wanted to do. And I sang from the time I was very young.

A joyful heart is like the sunshine of God's love, the hope of eternal happiness.

Whatever the challenge was, however unattainable the goal may have seemed, I never let anyone talk me out of believing in myself.

I got this feeling I'm gonna die before I get old. I don't know why. I just have this feeling.