Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

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 began to write because of love. I wrote to understand what I felt and what I knew.

Good luck belongs to those who know how and are not afraid." John Hay to President Theodore Roosevelt

Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

Being of service to others daily makes me feel alive.

If you do the best you can, you have nothing to be ashamed of. A defeat is not a disgrace.

I always tell people, it took me 10 minutes and 35 years in the business. I get tired of playing it ["Lullaby of Birdland"], but not of collecting the royalties.

Often we come home from a sharing session with a feeling that something precious has been taken away from us or that holy ground has been trodden upon.

Computerization brings about an essential change in the way the worker can know the world and, with it, a crisis of confidence inthe possibility of certain knowledge.

How do you tell when you’re out of invisible ink?

Nobody who cooks does it with full hair and makeup in front of a TV camera.