Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

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.

You know the saying? Don't go in if you don't have a skin.

I'm very comfortable with where history will judge me.

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own.

I'm on the verge of a total breakdown. Sciatica. Taxes. Cars. Fleas, possibly. It's an absurd existence.

France has given us the best filmmakers and food.

[Our children] have been taken away from us by the psychiatric mental-health system. They've been taken away by the educational system, by the government, and by many different forces.

Cultivate truth, good faith, experience, cleverness, sociability, and industry.

The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul.

It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.