And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws.

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 may have power but I do not have strength.

He will understand when it is too late that it is easier to love.

Success begets success. I've been offered a lot of movies now that '30 Rock' has been successful.

Unless we die to ourselves, we can never be alive again.

I think that a lot of journalists don't really listen to music before they review it.

It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement.

I think it is very important for us to make clear to our children that our country really is great because we're good.

We will not duck the tough issues, we will lead.

I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough. Let's go west.'

Putting our ecosystem in great peril is certainly not a part of Chinese culture that I know.