You came to me to learn the Pleasure of Life and the Pleasure of Art. Perhaps I am chosen to teach you something much more wonderful, the meaning of Sorrow and its beauty.

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 laid the foundation of a universal government. His law was one for all. Equal justice and love for everyone.

Nirvana is outside the fun house. You are walking around in the fun house forever.

I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks; it's what children bring into school with them.

I think my biggest flaw is my insecurity. I'm terribly insecure. I'm plagued with insecurities 24/7.

The language of the poem is the language of particulars.

You don't find time to write. You make time. It's my job.

Look around you: there is not a doctor who desires the health of his friends, not a soldier who desires peace for his country.

Fortune reveres the brave, and overwhelms the cowardly.

M.I.T. has a reputation for turning out Dilberts. They may be brilliant in what they do, but no one can understand what they say.

When a woman starts to disentangle herself from patriarchy, ultimately she is abandoned to her own self.