God, bless me with luxury. Necessities I can do without.

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 was able to read poets that were - allowed me to be humorous without being silly.

The onset of adulthood is an organic, creeping process. No one wakes up one day and decides, 'Lo, on this day I shall forever put away childish things and begin clipping coupons to go to Wal-Mart.'

Hate cannot overcome hate; only love can do that.

Healthy people are invalids who don't know it.

I consider myself normal. I've spent 20 years in the pool. I consider that something that's normal.

I went to school at a place that also shaped my life, Boston Latin School.

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

There's a difference between logic and what maybe people see when they're presented evidence and justice and that they're not always together.

How awful that the artist has become nothing but the after-dinner mint of society.

As you walk through life, always walk toward the light, and the shadows of life will fall behind you.