Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.

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.

Then perhaps you shouldn't sleep. The imagination has terrifying power.

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

I am relieved. May I now have the truth?

When you're walking through the darkness, you can't depend on anything or anyone else to light your way. You have to rely on whatever sparks you've got inside you. Or you're going to get lost.

It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.

I'm addicted to the dynamics of relationships whether they be in love, work, between strangers on the streets, or in the world in general.

O love, where are you leading me now?

Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.

Every German soldier must be made to feel that he is living under the muzzle of a Russian gun.