We live in the age of the overworked and the undereducated.

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.

God is good all the time!!

It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins.

We must stop calling the looting of our national wealth, a share in the national cake.

I didn't understand how. But the toilets had responded to me. I had become one with the plumbing...

Were the Inhabitants of Italy charming as their Country, all other Regions would be depopulated I think.

Come! Poor little heart! Be cheery and brave. We'll be a great deal to one another, if we are thrown off and left desolate.

The quiet was so deep that their feet seemed to thump along while all the trees leaned over them and listened.

Every power grab is the new base camp for the next power grab.

I like to date schoolteachers. If you do something wrong, they make you do it over again.

I guess I'm one of those girls who can be too honest about things for my own good, but I expect it back. I expect people to be honest and blunt with me, too.