When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.

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.

Assumptions are dangerous things.

I am confident that the next century will be better than this one.

In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.

If you really want to experience God, go and make disciples.

For years now, people have mentioned my mustache and get disappointed that when they see me live I don't have a mustache.

Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.

Sometimes you have to be uncomfortable.

If we didn't live in a society that told us we're not OK if we're not making 100 grand a year, I think we'd all be a lot happier.

A man without scenery is completely disarmed.

It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.