One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

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 our thoughts, at times, wander into darkness... remember we are human and have been imbued with free will to choose the light.

I hate when I get a script and I can't see who the people are.

No matter when you were born or where, puberty is the same. It's the same for your parents as it is for you - what's happening in your body dictates everything.

Awesome is loud but awe is quiet.

Of the whole public not a handful can understand the artist's point of view or the writer's conscience.

By God, Mr. Chairman, at this moment I stand astonished at my own modesty.

The first thing to recognize not just about Afghanistan but about any poor undeveloped country is that as big as it looks on the map, it's much bigger when you're there.

I want my life to have had more value than just acquiring stuff and living comfortably. I may die rich, or I may die broke. But I won't die with my music still in me.

Like 84% of Canadians, I believe in God.

The narcissist act is not an act. I actually am a narcissist, very much so. My world revolves around me.