A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'

To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.