The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

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.

I leave my human nature to unfold according to its destiny. I remain as I AM.

If you are not an exception, try to be the example.

Someday, men will visit ideas instead of places.

Your children are going through life with their eyes closed, so YOU'RE the one who has to steer.

Writing is easy. Writing is hard. It's a breeze and a struggle, just like life.

To my city I'm the 2-3

Caution is the daughter of circumspection, but she tends to outgrow her mother.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

I don't aspire to direct like many actors. I would aspire most likely to do some writing, but I haven't had a chance to do that.

To be enlightened doesn't mean you end up stupefied and unable to function.