Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.

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.

Smile creates love and peace

We do the right things at the wrong time because we think we are doing the right thing and the wrong things at the wrong times simply because we want to.

Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily affected by public policies should have a say in how they are formulated and carried out.

Still, it doesn't do to murder people, no matter how offensive they may be.

O sleep, O gentle sleep, I thought gratefully, Nature's gentle nurse.

A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but they have heads like a soapboiler's.

Those only can thoroughly feel the meaning of death who know what is perfect love.

The same principle that forbids me to lie does not allow me to tell the truth.

This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.

It's going to be a bummer if Mars turns out to be like us.