If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.

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.

Women are attracted to bad boys not because they want to fall in love… we just want to ride on the backs of their motor bikes.

My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.

A thousand times over, the death knell of the Bible has been sounded, the funeral procession formed, the inscription cut on the tombstone, and committal read. But somehow the corpse never stays put.

Be innovative. Don't listen to the tried and tested wisdom. Take a risk!

Neither awake nor in a dark dream are perilous blades just as they seem.

I have emotional needs that I didn't know I had, and I have physical needs that I didn't know weren't really needs.

Agility is the ability to adapt and respond to change … agile organizations view change as an opportunity, not a threat.

You can never know anything for sure.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

I've killed enough of the world's trees.