memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away

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.

I've learnt that solitude is sometimes a path that leads to peace

Before stopping terrorism, find the real terrorist!!!

In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game.

That's the chief lesson I have learned: the texture of our universe is one where there is no question at all but that good and laughter and justice will prevail.

It is good to have respect for all beings because who knows what anyone can do?

Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.

Without an unreserved surrender to His grace, complete mastery over thoughts is impossible.

My books are not really books; theyre endless chains of distraction shoved inside a cover. Many of them begin at the search box of Pub Med, an Internet database of medical journal articles.

A biography is never a biography of one person, of course, but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It will always bang up against history.

People cant help how they look.