To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

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.

I have four strikes against me. I'm black, I'm short, I'm intelligent, and I have a medical condition.

There is nothing like practice.

Even though I grew up in L.A., no one in my family was in the movie industry.

The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.

Her throat ached: adoration, heartbreak, in equal measure. “Kiss me,” she said. “Please.

Minds, like parachutes, work only when open.

What is important in meditation is the quality of the mind and the heart.It is not what you achieve, or what you say you attain, but rather the quality of a mind that is innocent and vulnerable.

When you follow your thoughts and watch them attach to certain things, it makes certain things real and other things unreal, and you realize that this is all created by your mind.

Squash - that's not exercise, it's flagellation.

It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age.