What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.

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.

As long as the vision is flawed, egoism is evident. Therefore, one has to get rid of the flaws.

The only bad workout is the one that didn't happen.

I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.

What I learned from doing The Graduate was it doesnt matter what the medium is... as long as the material is inspiring and the characters are well written.

I can't concern myself with what's going on with the club or what the media is writing. If you pay attention to those things, that's when you get yourself in trouble.

[Geology] may be looked upon as the history of the earth's changes during preparation for the reception of organized beings, a history, which has all the character of a great epic.

In soft deluding lies let fools delight. A shadow marks our days, which end in Night.

Their desire was silent yet magnificent, like a thousand daisies attuning their faces toward the path of the sun.

Nothing ever turns me on so much in a woman as unhappiness.

For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.