Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.

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 rain is falling ever harder and all I can hear is the sound of the water. I'm drenched but I can't move.

one day I'll be old, without ever having really been young

I don't think the sunrise is as good as the moonlight.

The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.

We are not born for ourselves alone.

Reason as an organ for perceiving the true nature of reality and determining the guiding principles of our lives has come to be regarded as obsolete.

Some day I'm gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.

Your current thoughts are creating your future life. What you think about the most or focus on the most will appear as your life

"You are the noblest, purest creature I've ever met. The universe will be a darker place without you," he whispered.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.