Given that we can live only a small part of what there is in us -- what happens with the rest?

We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.

We are stratified creatures, creatures full of abysses, with a soul of inconstant quicksilver, with a mind whose color and shape change as in a kaleidoscope that is constantly shaken.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution is a duty!

Life is not what we live; it is what we imagine we are living.

Loyalty... A will, a decision, a resolution of the soul.

A feeling is no longer the same when it comes the second time. It dies through the awareness of its return. We become tired and weary of our feelings when they come too often and last too long.

There were people who read and there were the others. Whether you were the a reader or a non-reader was soon apparent. There was no greater distinction between people.

But when we set out to understand somebody’s inside? Is that a trip that ever ends? Is the soul a place of facts? Or are the alleged facts only the deceptive shadows of our stories?

So, the fear of death might be described as the fear of not being able to become whom one had planned to be.

Isn't it true that it's not people who meet, but rather the shadows cast by their imaginations?

The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins.

I'm quite old-fashioned. I like going out to dinner. You have the chance to talk to somebody and get to know them better.

Pride is generally censured and decried, but mainly by those who have nothing to be proud of.

The happiest times in my life were the days when I was traveling with Les Brown and his band.

Patience and foresight are the two most important qualities in business

Nothing is so fatiguing as the life of a wit.

The ethic behind songs of conscience doesn't change, even though the issues are altered from generation to generation.

How happy the life unembarrassed by the cares of business!

A successful business is either loved or needed.

Amateurs go broke taking large losses, professionals go broke taking small profits.