To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.

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.

Give sometimes everything will be alright.

In you, she saw hope.”“You mean she saw his next meal.

All adventure is now reactionary.

As Hollywood knows, I'm full of ideas.

I wonder if my shrink (sorry, psychiatrist) was a woman not a man I'd be in a better or worse state?

Truth stands for Taking Real Understanding To Heart.

You see what stupid folk my publishers are; but they are all alike.

Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I've found; but nothing is more dangerous than to ignore them.

the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!

There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God.