Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.

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.

Live first, write second.

Excuse me, everybody, I have to go to the bathroom. I really have to telephone, but I'm too embarrassed to say so.

The reward of service is more service.

The people who came to New England, came for freedom of religion. The problem is, freedom of religion to them meant freedom for only their religion

The moment you value yourself, the whole world values you.

I haven't frequented a nail salon in a long time.

An adventurer can always return home; an exile cannot. So I decided that my home would be culture.

After I quit dancing, I tried a lot of jobs. But I could always bake.

If you go too far down the rabbit hole of what people think about you, it can change everything about who you are.

Going on the ship felt like 100 years or one day. Timeless. Beautiful vertigo. It will continue to show up in my work.