It is easy to promise, and alas! How easy to forget!

With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world.

Any cigar smoker is a friend, because I know how he feels.

I don't know where my road is going, but I know that I walk better when I hold your hand.

Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.

Life is a sleep, love is a dream; and you have lived if you have loved.

... but one loves, and when one is on the brink of death, one turns around to look backward, and one says to oneself: "I have often suffered, I have sometimes been wrong, but I have loved.

The only true language in the world is a kiss.

Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.

Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits.

The only truth is love beyond reason.

Before becoming a mother I had a hundred theories on how to bring up children. Now I have seven children and only one theory: love them, especially when they least deserve to be loved.

The test of any man lies in action.

I was no good at being a child.

Anaximander used to assert that the primary cause of all things was the Infinite,-not defining exactly whether he meant air or water or anything else.

I wouldn't know what to do with another chance if you gave it to me.

To that which is born, death is certain; to that which is dead, birth is certain.

Watching the way the current moves a blade of grass - sometimes I've seen that happen and it has just turned me inside out.

It is inconceivable how much wit it requires to avoid being ridiculous.

I think it's important when you make a record that you know you're working with the people who are going to get the best out of you.

The important thing is to keep playing, to play against weak opponents and to play for big stakes.