A human's best training is with his shadow. You have to fight with your shadow.

A house without books must be sad. Even sadder a house of books without people.

Do you like reading? It's the best thing that can happen to you in life. Writing has other implications.

The trouble with a great sadness is that it doesn't fit inside your body.

‎"Based on a true story"? No, thanks. I prefer "based on a true imagination".

All the minor sports injuries you acquire over the years begin to multiply like flies when you get over 70.

I think a woman is sexy when she's in nice clothes, flattering clothes. I don't think that being half-dressed in little half-tops... I don't find that sexy.

Action cures fear. Indecision, postponement, on the other hand, fuel fear.

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.

Without mountains the air could not be purified, nor the flowing of the rivers sustained.

You are nuts and you should be proud of it. Stick with what you believe in.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

You can't have a Superman that is battling cultural morality. You need a Superman that has built in sort of values.