The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.

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.

I'm sorry if any of you are catholic. I'm not sorry if you're offended, I'm actually just sorry by the fact that you're catholic

I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.

If you open the armpits, the brain becomes light. You cannot brood or become depressed.

Composing was more difficult than writing things down.

Many Americans have never owned a book, and I'm not talking about because of the recent digital revolution. I'm talking about before there even was a digital revolution.

To think! All that power and he wasn't even rich!

We try to live every moment like that, dwelling peacefully in the present moment, and respond to events with compassion.

Patience is never more important than when you are at the edge of losing it.

The light of genius never sets, but sheds itself upon other faces, in different hues of splendor. Homer glows in the softened beauty of Virgil, and Spenser revives in the decorated learning of Gray.

I think what people understand there probably - well, they were hoping the private sector would do it [rescuing AIG ].