Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.

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 fact, they live in a state of constant paradox where truth is anything but constant

Never let your desire for love override your sense of self and value.

Saturated Arrogance...she rebuked those about herin darkness did she dwella pathetic historyall mortal man would tell..

Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.

History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.

Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen; Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.

Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn.

The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another.

With the war and everything that's going on, unless you're Susan Sarandon, the best route is to keep your mouth shut. For me it is, anyway!

Nor do they speak properly who say that time consumeth all things; for time is not effective, nor are bodies destroyed by it.