I can't help it, the idea of the infinite torments me.

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.

The best thing you can give a person is the courage and the desire to go beyond his culture, that little limited world of his!

The only real laughter comes from despair.

Loving someone is very different from the heady feeling of being "in love, " which is, frankly, just temporary insanity.

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.

There is nothing more important than hard work.

We are, because God is.

Some were scattered about the ring, one or two went in the sawdust tub, one I spat out as I fell, and I am thundering sure I swallowed a couple

There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.

I think I'm most nervous about revealing how nervous I have always been. People think me calm, confident, poised. Inside I'm a jelly.