To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.

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.

Love is a ray of sunshine in the days of darkness.

When we care, we share.

I love all music. Right now I am loving Josh Grobin and Kelly Clarkson.

God was conceived of a most pure Virgin ... it was fitting that the virgin should be radiant with a purity so great that a greater purity cannot be conceived.

Today there is too much retouching, and I don't like it, except on me.

Remember that the people you are talking to are a hundred times more interested in themselves and their wants and problems than they are in you and your problems.

I seem to have dodged all my days with one or two persons, and lived upon expectation,--as if the bud would surely blossom; and soI am content to live.

But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.

I'm more of a strumming guitarist, instead of a lead soloist guitarist.

Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.