There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

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 first duty of a man is to think for himself

He left because the world is not made to accommodate people like him.

She saw clearly a boy and a man fighting for control of the same face.

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities but its own talents.

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

I don't think, until you've actually lost somebody you really love, that you can go through that door that allows you to be grown-up.

If you can maintain that integrity in whatever you do, you can't go wrong.

Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe.

You cannot solve the climate crisis if you are putting people out of work.

You can still practice to be a better and kinder and happier person. That's perfectly possible.