If I thought a man had never committed a sin in his life, I don't think I'd want to talk with him. A man with flaws is more interesting.

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.

Virtue is not photogenic.

Streets crowded with people strolling, or sitting at outdoor cafes. And always, talking, gesturing, singing, laughing. I liked Rome immediately.Everybody was a performer.

I guess I was a bad boy... Yes, yes, I've had lots of women in my life.

You haven't learned how to live until you've learned how to give.

Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.

Obey the voice within - it commands us to give of ourselves and help others. As long as we have the capacity to give, we are alive

The only advantage I have found in being Jewish is that I can be openly anti-Semitic.

My kids never had the advantages I had. I was born poor.

Ezra Pound - idiosyncrasy on a monument.

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his own.

It's not terribly dignified to have anyone seeing one laugh at one's own material.

To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a turn as that done to the Athenian madman who was happy in believing that all the ships touching at the port belonged to him.

I was just working on music and reading. It was relaxing. I would just stay up so late for no reason because I was bored.

Fight back! Whenever you are offered violence, fight back! The aggressor does not fear the law, so he must be taught to fear you. Whatever the risk, and at whatever the cost, fight back!

It is true that I must run a great risk; no gallant action was ever accomplished without danger.

Our attitude towards ourselves should be 'to be satiable in learning' and towards others 'to be tireless in teaching.

The self-righteous rule out the possibility that they are what has gone wrong.

Future is an empty paper, but not absolutely empty; the shadows of the drawings of the past is there, on the paper!