Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.

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.

As far as I can tell, there are two basic (kissing) rules: 1. Don't bite anything without permission. 2. The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly.

A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line.

Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.

Life is short and so is money.

Frankly, I've never felt voting to be all that essential to the process.

Under President Bachmann you will see gasoline come down below $2 a gallon again.

This is a speculating and selfish age; and to think 'money will answer all things,' is too much the characteristic of Americans.

I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.