Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

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.

Education ignites the lights in the darkness of life.

The color and shape of flowers are a precise record of what bees find attractive

Family tragedies had a way of smashing everything apart and then gluing it all back together. The problem was no one ever knew how long the glue would hold.

Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.

The public have neither shame nor gratitude.

In Mozambique, the story goes, monkeys do not talk, because they know if they utter even a single word some man will come and put them to work.

I was walking home one night and a guy hammering on a roof called me a paranoid little weirdo. In morse code.

Find your soul and you'll live. Lose your soul and you'll die.

Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past.

No one chose to be part of a love. You don't choose it. It's not a decision that you make.