“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.”

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.

Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won’t be invited to cocktail parties.

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.

There is no sin except stupidity.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.

If people don’t like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that’s too bad. I don’t want to change to be something that I’m not for other people to like me.

If we feel inwardly strong, we will have no need or desire to speak ill of others.

I wake up every morning at, like, seven or eight because I think that there’s a bad story about me, and I have to check. My worst fear is waking up and finding something bad about me on the Internet.

I always try to write a song to work things out with myself and I want to do it with a little punchline at the end, because I never want to remember anything bad in my life.

Sin doesn’t make us bad, sin makes us dead. The gospel doesn’t make us better, the gospel makes us alive.

I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I’ve seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people.

Rules are not bad, but they can’t save anyone.