The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.

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 believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably.

Failure is something you experience on your way to success - unless you're a skydiver.

And with this frailty of mind, society in general acts like the petulant child in the sandbox, relational aggression occasionally frothing above the surface.

To what end, he wondered, had the Divine created the stars in heaven to fill a man with feelings of inspiration one day and insignificance the next?

The great musicians are those who can reach people, who can make people feel something.

"Oh!" said my aunt, "I was not aware at first to whom I had the pleasure of objecting."

I do not believe there ever was a man who was his own master, but that every man has a master of some kind or other.

I am convinced that everyone can develop a good heart and a sense of universal responsibility with or without religion.

Power does not reside in institutions, not even the state or large corporations. It is located in the networks that structure society.

All are brothers and sisters. All are one, be alike to every­one. That is Unity... the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God.