The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.

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.

Being certain one is alive isn't something to which one pays mind. If you could ask the question, you were fine. If you could not, hopefully you had a cozy coffin.

Loyalty will always be found in the things you regret because it mattered.

It's under my skin but out of my hands (Tears for Fears - Womain in Chains, 1992)

Meaning lies as much in the mind of the reader as in the Haiku.

Because photos are testimony that someone did live. A reminder of past we may have loved or hated. A piece of our lives.

If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.

Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.

I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

Parents teach in the toughest school in the world - The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, the classroom teacher, and the janitor.

The fate of a nation has often depended upon the good or bad digestion of a prime minister.