Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

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.

He who traps mice should not boast to he who hunts lions.

There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got.

Apologies do make a difference. Believe it or not, research shows people often prefer them over money.

Don't let your eyes look here and there, and don't look on someone elses' beauty, so that the devil will not conquer you with the help of your eyes.

Everyone at school seems to go by a nickname. Kat, Frosty, Bronx, Boo Bear, Jelly Bean, Freckles.

The same thing I applied to football, I applied to trying to be an actor and hopefully it came off well.

We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it

I am not one of those writers that it just flows out of effortlessly. I have to sit and write and rewrite and sometimes it's really challenging to get anything good out of myself.

What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?