To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.

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.

Being famous without honor is a thing of no worth.

In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.

Surely it is a sin to reject the few gifts we are given. Be happy in the flash of time granted to us or hurt forever.

Those fields which most depend upon authoritative opinion for their data least contain known natural law.

When I say 'I am a Christian', I'm not shouting 'I'm saved'. I'm whispering 'I get lost'. That is why I chose this way.

What needs to be grasped is that the system itself is the cause of all of the misery in the world. This is a simple but powerful idea.

It doesnt hurt to repeat here the statement, still rejected by many people in spite of its obviousness, that education is a political act.

When we were on breaks from recording and touring, I was kind of moping around, like not knowing what to do. It was hard to adjust back to normal life after being so busy.

O, do not pray for easy lives.