I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.

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.

Reality is a changeless concept that only perception can mask.

First rule of motherhood, dearie: men are screw-ups. Learn it now and you'll be a whole lot happier.

A right way, a wrong way, and a GREENWAY.

A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.

What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.

I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.

The terminal path may, to distinguish it from internuncial common paths, be called the final common path. The motor nerve to a muscle is a collection of such final common paths.

I live, which is the main point.

Accidents did not just happen. From time to time they were carefully plotted, calculated, and arranged to one’s advantage-all, of course, under the cloak of happenstance.

I don't want to have people brought in simply because they are black or Asian.