it is a marvel that those red-roseleaf lips of yours should be made no less for the madness of music and song than for the madness of kissing.

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.

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

I am a kid from the '70s, when video games first started coming out, so I definitely have to say I am a video game junkie to this day.

Barack Obama has domesticated the left in such a way that we feel as if we have no alternative but him...I refuse to accept that.

She would not have put herself out so much to say so little.

Trouble looms when monogamy is no longer a free expression of loyalty but a form of enforced compliance.

...I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.

From any vocabulary of ideas we can build other ideas by formal combinations of signs. But not any set of ideas will be instructive. One must have the right ideas.

General, if you put every Union soldier now on the other side of the Potomac on that field to approach me over the same line, I will kill them all before they reach my line.

How low, how little are the proud, How indigent the great!

It's important that you work on things that you care about and do a good job and not be too worried about consequences. Don't be afraid to get involved.