To be premature is to be perfect

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.

Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

Sometimes the best journeys are those, that start when we do not plan, continue how we do not expect and are taking us places we do not know.

But attempts to evade anxiety are not only doomed to failure. In running from anxiety you lose your most precious opportunities for the emergence of yourself, and for your education as s human being.

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

Climate change isn't just an environmental issue; it's a technology, water, food, energy, population issue. None of this happens in a vacuum.

Relativity propped it up, at least gave it the illusion of being there…the way all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted.

God can judge me, I don't need a jury. Nothing standing in my way, like nothing's my security.

I feel like you've got to go through some things in order to get somewhere. He [GOD] took me through nearly seven years of hell, but allowed me to grow and mature into a man and true professional.

A good writer preserves an air of freedom in his prose, so that the reader won't know how a story will end - even if he's reading a history book.