Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping.

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.

The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.

Belonging to another man and therefore not even a little bit to him.

To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother.

In 1903 the Wright brothers invented airplanes, because in 1902 they took a road trip across the country with their family.

It's very hard to tour.

I am primarily a writer of books, and I enjoy that. But I come to realize that a lot of people prefer a visual medium.

What we do and accomplish is only the tip of the iceberg of what's possible for us.

There is power in simply speaking the name Jesus.

Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at.

I lean over and put my good ear to his lips, which tickle me as he whispers. "Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me any time you like it.