The one charm about the past is that it is the past.

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 decisions that take you to your highest points in life are the toughest decisions you'd have to make.

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

Resenting the obtuseness of others is not good ground for shooting oneself in the foot.

I don't like myself. I'm not vain at all. I hate looking at myself - I always think I look ugly. Honest.

The power of a theory is exactly proportional to the diversity of situations it can explain.

The art of life, of a poet's life, is, not having anything to do, to do something.

You really don't put a value on your first win, it is priceless no matter where you are.

No amount of money will induce someone to lay down their life, but they will gladly do so for a bit of yellow ribbon.

Originally I was not writing songs for myself

I was funny around my family. My family, they're pretty funny, too.