I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.

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.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.

Never make a decision. Let someone else make it and then if it turns out to be the wrong one, you can disclaim it, and if it is the right one you can abide by it.

The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.

Every name is real. That's the nature of names.

Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence of natural phenomena.

"He preaches well that lives well," quoth Sancho, "that's all the divinity I can understand."

All our loves are first loves.

Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out.

The very first tournament I watched is the U.S. Open when I was 13. And that was the year Juli Inkster won.