Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?

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.

Whether we like it or not, modern ways are going to alter and in part destroy traditional customs and values.

It is easy to live with someone of value than someone famous.

I had intended to visit the haunting ground of my school days. Subconsciously I wanted to be in a place where anxiety, responsibility and financial burden had yet to surface.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

My children have been all over the world, and I think it's so good for them: expanding their horizons and imagination and seeing how other people live.

The smell of loving is a difficult one to describe, but if you think of the times when someone has held you close and made you safe, you will remember how it smells just as well as I do.

Forgiveness is a little thing when love is there.

When I'm writing poetry, 99.9% of my writing begins in English. I spent most of my life in English, although I am bilingual.

Petitions are ridiculous.

Never increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything.