My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to someone.

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.

When he told me that he would fight forever, I knew that he would have to be defeated.

The Gates of Heaven and the Gates of Hell are the same gates. It just depends which side you're standing on when you walk through.

You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.

I think just letting go is a really good thing to do in many areas of your life, songwriting included.

I'm one of those women who likes to chat and share knowledge and pass it around.

You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.

The only thing power respects, is power.

I think progress began to retrogress when Wilbur and Orville started tinkering around in Dayton and at Kitty Hawk, because I believe that two Wrights made a wrong.

Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.

I hated farm work. I always got stuck with the jobs my father and brother didn't want to do.