There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them.

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.

Paul was devoted to a Person, not a cause.

He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.

I think there's always a call for people who are bucking the norm.

It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest influences there were Stephen King, Marion Zimmer Bradley and Richard Adams.

I believe the public schools are the greatest cultural influence in this country.

Carrying a grudge is difficult work that brings nothing of value. Forgive, and be free.

I don’t believe in all this public-funded health care, we can’t afford it. If you want health care, you pay for it.

I challenge anybody to show me an example of bias in Fox News Channel.

We seek opinions that are likely to support what we want to be true.

All politicians have three ways of expressing themselves - the intimate dialogue that can often be violent and raw, then the dialogue in front of the camera and then big public speeches.