To be ready is one thing, to be able to wait is another; but to seize the right moment is everything.

No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love.

It is better to put on the brakes sooner, for some fine day you begin to understand — to pardon everything — and then where is the charm of life, if you cannot love or hate any more?

I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?

To be practical in life means to take everything seriously and nothing tragically.

It's easy to write one's memoirs when one has a terrible memory.

You never so much want to be happy with a woman as when you know that you're ceasing to care for her.

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

The principal task of friendship is to foster one's friends' illusions.

Sleep does make us all equal, it seems to me, like his big brother-Death.

Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them.

History is unkind to those it abandons, and can be equally unkind to those who make it.

Never do human beings speculate more, or have more opinions, than about things which they do not understand.

Baby I know, the first cut is the deepest.

I'm a self-taught musician so how I read music is kind of very weak and I kind of read my own version of tablature, I write my own crappy reminders on what I'm playing.

Death is a new office building filled with modern furniture, A wise thing, but which has no purpose for us.

Fearful of sentimentality, I disown my tears and melting heart.

If you betray me, can I take a better revenge than to love the person you hate?

This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.

I counseled many returning missionaries. I interviewed 1,700 missionaries all over the world. My advice to them is that you should study and prepare for your life's work in a field that you enjoy.

So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, and Robin shall restore amends.