On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

All sport ... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.

Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

Live your life and forget your age.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.

When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?