When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.

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.

A novelist is a person who lives in other people's skins.

Too many codeine pills, Too many nights of cold chillsToo many weak-handed dealsToo many lives, the addict steals

If we take away any of the attributes of God, we do not weaken God but we weaken our concept of God.

Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: it’s for life.

Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work.

Untimely conduct is the discord of manners.

Prehistoric art came to move me much more than Greek art. Greek art has beautiful women and handsome men, but I don't care.

So I've seen life as one long learning process.

A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys.

I Think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost . The body sluggish, aged, cold, the ember left from earlier fires shall duly flame again.