The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.

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.

She kissed him… long enough he could almost hear her thoughts. Long enough that he began to know her story, know what she had been through.

I try to sit still for about 15 minutes each morning without making lists or running in overdrive.

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want they choose what they think is safe.

As you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress.

The customer is an object to be manipulated, not a concrete person whose aims the businessman is interested to satisfy.

Whatever is gold does not glitter. A gentle radiance belongs to the noblest metal.

Hope springs eternal, even in politics.

Oh fair, oh sweet and holy as dew at morning tide, I gaze on thee, and yearnings, sad in my bosom hide.

The life prospects of an American are more dependent on the income and education of his parents than in any of the other advanced industrial countries.

As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.