As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.

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.

Truth can conquer but only beauty can rule.

...definitely believe that, there's got to be a spark to a place...to make it feel like a home...

Sunshine warms us, as do smiles—which makes me think that smiles are sunbeams reflected off our teeth.

To not have any hope is where things start to get really bleak. Things are possible. The impossible can be possible.

The actual evidence concerning the Exodus resembles the evidence for the unicorn.

Those who are dead are not dead They're just living in my head.

My family brought me up to be very respectful of people.

Follow your own weird.

To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?

I fear we may live to see another revolution.