This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

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!

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

I am not young enough to know everything.

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

It takes a long time to grow young.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

In the end, everything is a gag.

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.