What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless.

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.

Until you develop the courage to pursue that dream in your heart, you will never reach your true potential.

God remains the same—faithful, loving and powerful—through changes big and small.

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

In Paris, the greatest expression of personal satisfaction known to man is the smirk on the face of a male, highly pleased with himself as he leaves the boudoir of a lady.

If you are silent through meditation, utterly silent, suddenly you feel a tremendous urge to create something.

Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.

When truth is evident, it is impossible for parties and factions to rise. There never has been a dispute as to whether there is daylight at noon.

I have only hated men at those moments when I realized that I was doing all the giving and they the taking. At least when I was a prostitute, it was all honest and upfront.