Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.

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 is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

It is an ancient story Yet is it ever new.

I am inspired musically by anyone who can write a song that can bring me to tears.

It's hard to learn about your parents' courtship.

The United States of America became the envy of the world because we welcomed the best and brightest minds from anywhere on the planet and gave them the opportunity to succeed.

Jeffrey Lewis sings as though absurdity were truth, and truth absurdity. And I think I agree with him.

What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.

The church is in Christ, as Eve was in Adam.

An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.