We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.

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.

Perhaps this is why one reads fiction to begin with - to live a more interesting reality than one's daily life.

Winter is already a lost shape, forgottenin the ground. Instead, here is Springwith all the grace of a womansmoothing out her apron.

Beauty without expression tires.

I grew up in and identify with and that she works and exists in.

My question would be whether there is active persecution of atheists.

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain.

Learn to say no, so your yes has some oomph.

Because i've suffered. Because many times in my life i have tried to love with all my heart, and my love has wound up being trampled or betrayed.

Thinking is the hardest and most exhausting of all labor; and hence many people shrink from it.