To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.

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.

You don't sell the product, you sell the philosophy. When you sell a product, you have customers, when you sell a philosophy, you have believers.

I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.

I am no longer a curmudgeon. I am a curmudgeon emeritus.

We hit and we kept on hitting; we were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful — little animals, clawing at what we needed.

I heavily overinvest in recruiting. I have an understanding with certain search firms that if you find someone great, don't wait until there's a job opening - send him to me.

The world sucks, people are not true

But with woodworking, it's really sort of gratifying to be able to have an actual piece to touch, and then step back and be able to share it.

Relations are errors that Nature makes. / Your spouse you can put on the shelf. / But your friends, dear friends, are the quaint mistakes / You always commit yourself.

Have the confidence to be your own person.

I would love to see some comedies about loser women.