Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

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.

Most of the time things against nature are scarier than the scariest things of nature

Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll only find yourself lost and dying of thirst.

I need time every day to think.

Although I'm not actually embarrassed by this, I tend not to read books that have awesome movies made from them, regardless of how well or badly the movie represented the actual written story.

A lot can be told from what happens in between the main moments.

Within the extent of your knowledge, you are right.

No matter what, you must let your inner light guide you out of the darkness.

Fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world.

It's impossible to stall a Lizzie.

Respect and affection for animals, particularly those who share our homes, recognize no geographic borders.