The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.

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.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

The sky is a canvas, so paint your own life.

I don’t pretend to know much about love, but that’s how great love comes to an end, not in the flames of passion, but in the silence of regret.

They were ridiculous times. After I won my World Championship in 1976, I went to Japan.

All the girls who have photos of them at parties, like, "Woo!" - that's what someone's going to see of their grandma.

Speak the truth. Give whatever you can. Never be angry. These three steps will lead you Into the presence of the gods.

There is a natural partnership between State and Commerce, and the American business community to work together to educate the United States about marketing overseas.

Since I'm not sure of the address to which to send my gratitude, I put it out there in everything I do.

Parents must refuse to cooperate with any psychological evaluation of their children in school.

History is filled with fictional people.