The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.

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.

The only two words you should ever say to a mirror are “Hello, Beautiful.

I looked in the mirror and realized that I was already dead. I let you kill me one piece at a time, starting when I was, what? Eight years old? Nine? You killed yourself and then you came after us.

Grey rocks, and greyer sea, And surf along the shore -- And in my heart a name My lips shall speak no more.

Stop, breathe, look aroundand embrace the miracle of each day, the miracle of life.

everyone in our school has afterschool activities. mine is going home.

I have a temperament where I know how to win.

Ain't no man can outrun his fate.

I'm very proud of 'Platoon,' but at the end of it I was done. I was done.

To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil.

Washington, in fact, had very little private life, but was eminently a public character.