The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.

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.

Don't make it new

Making a decision to live a life of excellence, and living a life of excellence are two difference things.

Christmas is God deciding to become what He never had been, so that we can become what we never could be. And so, God does the most improbable thing imaginable. He orchestrates His own birth.

No matter how famous you are, there's always somebody more famous than you.

Imagine a world where unbelievers were critical of what we believed but envious of how well we treated one another.

Have fun, be active. Ride a bike instead of driving, for example.

My cats I have Luna who's just had kittens recently and we called one of them Dumbledore. They're nice but they're not like their characters.

Hunger finds no fault with the cookery.

I’m really afraid of spiders and my own feelings.

To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself.