Everyone tends to remember the past with greater fervor as the present gains greater importance.

You see things less clearly when you open your eyes too wide.

Whenever I look at a mountain I always expect it to turn into a volcano.

There are three things I always forget. Names, faces and... the third I can't remember.

Health doesn't analyze itself, nor does it look at itself in the mirror. Only we sick people know something about ourselves.

To kill someone, even treacherously is more manly than to wound a friend by betraying his confidence.

It is comfortable to live in the belief that you are great, though your greatness is latent.

Misunderstanding women is a clear sign of scant virility.

Tears throw a veil over our faults and allow us to accuse fate without fear or contradiction.

Everyone remembers his past with greater vividness as the present becomes more important. Dying men in their last delirium are supposed to see their whole life spread out before them.

Pain and love - the whole of life, in short - cannot be looked on as a disease just because they make us suffer.

We threw ourselves at that wild river every day and most days it tossed us all harmlessly skyward like well-loved children. After a while that does something to you.

Education is the key which opens the magical door of wisdom which reveals the beauty and purpose of life.

An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.

No outdoor sports can be more elegant than throwing stones at autocracy; no melees can be more exciting than those in cyberspace.

You know the little camel on the pack of cigarettes? They just found out that's not even a camel. It's actually a horse with a big, old tumor growing out of its mouth.

If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.

I did not use paint, I made myself up morally.

I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program.

I always called him the Dizzy Dean of music, he was so belligerent and braggadocio... But one thing I always noticed about Jelly, he would back everything he said by what he could do.

I think everyone's had their pound of flesh and now it's time to move on.