Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead.

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.

No one knows how strong they are until they have to be.

You’re only going to be as good as the stuff you surround yourself with.

A writer can make a fortune in America, but he can't make a living.

Unity cannot be taken for granted.

There was surely nothing to indicate at the time that such evidently small incidents would render whole dreams forever irredeemable.

Super Junior is not a group who will extinct in two or three years. We will always be with E.L.F. for 20 or 30 years until E.L.F. doesn't need us again.

Human perception is literally incarnation.

Whatever field of human activity one may take, only those trends that are in harmony with the needs of society show rapid progress.

I've had 60 years of ups and downs, and all of the downs that I've had, I'm happy that I've had them because it's taught me to appreciate all the ups.

This gets back to the fundamental lesson of political survival that Bill Clinton taught me, which is if you make it about the American people's lives instead of your life, you're going to be okay.