The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.

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.

Enjoy the ecstasy of daily dance.

All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.

As the flint contains the spark, unknown to itself, which the steel alone can awaken to life, so adversity often reveals to us hidden gems, which prosperity or negligence would forever have hidden.

Oh, my gosh, thirty-eight hundred children are going to die tomorrow. What am I going to do to actually save some of them?

I don't do it often, but I do cry. I also laugh a lot; people tell me I'm funny and I do like to laugh.

I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know.

In terms of actual audience numbers, I honestly had no idea what to expect [with 'Treachery' ]. It was, after all, not a superhero title.

Officials are the only guys who can rob you and then get a police escort out of the stadium.

Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor.