The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

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 lack of self-love has conditioned many to love those who inflict emotional pain on them, while hurting the ones who bring them the most joy.

Like when I host a party. I hope my guests get along. But if not, how interesting!

No, actually I wanted to play five. I definitely wanted to try to lose that fourth set and test the waters in the fifth.

There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote.

The war of good and evil is mightiest in mightiest souls, and even in the darkest time the heart will maintain its right against the hardest creed.

I would suggest to my honourable Friend that the foreign investor is at least as discouraged by high national debt for that, as all example shows, is the surest precursor of high taxation.

It is our duty, my young friends, to resist old age.

Medicine people are truly citizens of two worlds, and those who continue to walk the path of medicine power learn to keep their balance in both the ordinary and the non-ordinary worlds.

God is within you. God is a nice feeling. He's the flowers and smells and the nice things in life.

Conflict is a violation of harmony. If you participate in it, you're part of the problem, not the solution.