Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

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.

If you can change the way you think in time you will notice a change in your heart and also a change in your life and the way you see things.

When did we all become fluent in this language that none of us wanted to learn?

We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing; but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer, and to whom we can say, from time to time, that solitude is a fine thing.

The more I work in fashion, the less I dress up. The first pair of jeans I made was for my own body-my "strange body," as I call it.

Pigs eat grass if they are very hungry, but they can't use it as a regular source of food.

The fatal flaw of human wisdom is that it promises that you can change your relationships without needing to change yourself.

The more princes abstain from touching the wealth of their people, the greater will be their resources in the wants of the state.

We worked together with Wes Anderson writing a couple more movies together: Rushmore [1998] and Tenenbaums.

The heart-flute Knows how to charm the world.

Five exclamation marks: the sure sign of an insane mind.