The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.

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.

Some people think football [soccer] is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.

Memories extend our lives backward through time, making them feel longer.

Love can extend far beyond the people whom we know and it makes us a part of something much greater than ourselves.

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

I was raised to pretend.

Chauncy Burr ... talks well, possibly better than he thinks. But this is a common failing.

The more motivation, the more passion you have behind it... There's nothing that can stop you.

The human body has absolutely no requirement for animal flesh. Nobody has ever been found face-down 20 yards from Burger King because they couldn't get their Whopper in time.

Exercise is the most awful illusion. The secret is a lot of aspirin and marrons glaces.

If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields.