To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.

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.

People want incongruous, impossible things.

I'm crazy, boy. I'm a madman. I could eat both of you for dinner and love every bite.

Then here 's to the oak, the brave old oak, Who stands in his pride alone! And still flourish he a hale green tree When a hundred years are gone!

Simple is hard. Easy is harder. Invisible is hardest.

If it weren't for the people always getting tangled up with the machinery... Earth would be an engineer's paradise.

You have to allow for the impossible to be possible.

Having five children in six years is the best training in the world for Speaker of the House.

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

It's not that conservatives don't care. We do. We just have different answers than liberals do. It's a difference of the mind, not of the heart.

Revival precedes evangelism. The church must first repent. This is the blind spot in our eye today.