The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.

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.

There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.

Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves.

If you open your mouth in the dark, you will speak while in the wrong mood--darkness is the time to listen.

Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life.

Talk to women who've ever dated an Arab man. The results are not good.

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

I am heading straight in. I have earned my place in heaven. It’s not even close.

There is no struggle, rift, fight between those who claim the banner of the tea party and those who are in the Republican Party. We work together.

I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.