When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.

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.

I could smack her, punch her in the face, but then I see what she can't hide from me. I've seen it before-the desperation, the agony, the need to find a reason to go on, and the inability to find it.

The main obligation is to amuse yourself.

I spend my time backstage at the Lanvin shows, and when I come out at the end, all I see are people's eyes.

Teaching translation is more of an editing job. You act as editor. But you can have fun with it.

Frankly, no newspaper is set up to monitor for cheats and fabricators.

I do believe that everyone growing up faces differential opportunities. With me, it was books and travel and some good teachers.

People make me feel like I have a problem because I haven't had a kid yet.

The Seven Factors of Awakening are mindfulness, investigation of phenomena, diligence, joy, ease, concentration, and letting go.

Science can reconstruct Tyrannosaurus Rex from a fossilized bone and a fancied footprint, but it can't reconstruct God from the whole of creation.

Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together.