Poets and painters are outside the class system or rather they constitute a special class of their own like the circus people and the gypsies.

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

Those who have money think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know it is money.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.

We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.

Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.

Walk your own path and be yourself

It rainsAnd rainsAnd rains.But there is a sky above the rain, Nothing can rot the sky.Earth has turned to mud. What of it?The heart of the planet is made of fire, of ardent sun.(from "A Rainy Day")

True love is tested when betrayed.

If at all God's gaze falls upon us all it's with a mischievous grin, look at him.

Desire urges me on as fear bridles me" Bruno.

The Senate is the only show in the world where the cash customers have to sit in the balcony.

Eighteen months ago I weighed 95kg and had a 40-inch waist. Now the waist is down to 34 inches and I weigh nearly 98kg.

My hunger is not for success, it is for excellence. Because when you attain excellence, success just naturally follows.

I was lucky, from the age of 12 I had boxing talent and was good for my age.

Nearly losing my life made me want to live my life.