The pure and simple truth is, the truth is never pure and simple.

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.

Wrong decisions make a good stories, lies make a very good stories

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

I had set about trying to make myself more polished than a country boy would be.

I think there comes a point in probably most father-son relationships where the son kind of starts becoming the parent.

Shirts don't grow on trees.

I'm about to start something new. I'm waiting to be whelmed. The whelming as you start something new is quite something.

I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely.

John and I would go and have a couple of quiet beers, just to sit down and chew the fat. And he'd talk about Cynthia and how much he missed her

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.