I'm too old to know everything

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.

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.

I don't write like this in order to show how clever and well read I am--though I am rather clever and well read as a matter of fact.

Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me.

They're on our right, they're on our left, they're in front of us, they're behind us; they can't get away from us this time.

Each of us has been endowed with the perfect power to be free. Slavery is a state of mind that fails to acknowledge the slave's own power.

There's no way a fighter should fight and put his life on the line, and a promoter makes more money than he makes.

Every time I rise up, I have confidence that I'm going to make it.

I always felt my writing could benefit from the attention of established writers. I knew my work could grow and be better.

I never aspired to be up front. When I was a kid, I didn't ever look in the mirror with a hairbrush going, "Hey, I'm Elvis!"