Be careful of selfish motives. You can mistake them for principles and end up dying for them.

All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you.

I have never considered it my business to disabuse someone of a belief that makes life tolerable for them.

Always laugh off a slight insult, so that people will understand what it means when you're not laughing.

Time brings an end to everything. We should not mistake for a tragedy what is no more than the passage of time.

It's not that perfection cannot be achieved. It's that it's so hard to stop there.

Through the blackest night, morning gently tiptoes, feeling its way to dawn.