To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.

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 greatest reward for a man's failure is not necessarily the consequent success, but what he becomes by it.

I often cry, not from sadness, from the joy of the miraculous beauty of life.

We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.

Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails.

Don't vote for a Democrat or Republican, I have never voted for one in my life and I never will.

What we want is not power, but simply combination in order to elicit the largest possible giving.

I'm trying to speak--to write-the truth. I"m trying to be clear. I'm not interested in being fancy, or even original. Clarity and truth will be plenty, if I can only achieve them.

World will prosper in knowledge and intellect, if both men and women are deemed equal.

There is no more interesting place in the world to meet characters than a movie set.

Do you depend on others for motivation - or can you motivate yourself?