Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain 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.

•Zuzu Bailey: Look, Daddy. Teacher says, every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings. •George Bailey: That's right, that's right. •George Bailey: Attaboy, Clarence.

It is the Godfather, not God the Father, who makes you an offer you can’t refuse.

A lot of people simply don't realize their potential because they're just so risk adverse. They just don't want to take the risk.

I'd find myself more interesting if I weren't with me all the time.

Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.

From now on, I'm opting for ontological terrorism.

When you love what you do, then you're talking to one of the luckiest guys on the face of the earth.

The grandeur of a philosophy does not certify its truth.

I don't like to call myself a feminist writer. I say I'm a feminist, but I don't write to propagate an ism.

We manifest from Spirit. When Spirit begins to rule in our lives, we can literally manifest or attract to us everything that we perceive to be missing. That's really the essence of it.