Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at 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.

We need to abandon our scale and adopt God's because our misguided labels keep us from the right kind of interaction with people.

The fear of God is to depart from evil.

A real treasure becomes such only after it's been desperately sought after.

Time is a treasure on earth.

If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.

Or maybe it is only that we are so habitually inattentive that when some rare but simple geometry grabs us by the shoulders and shakes us into consciousness, we call our response sacred.

Indiscretion, rashness, falsehood, levity, and malice, produce each other.

When my life is throughAnd the angels ask me to recallThe thrill of them allThen I shall tell themI remember you

Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession - not conscious planning - provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.

Latinos care about education, yes, so we need reform, not just money.