There's one thing my old man taught me and it's the best thing he taught me. It wasn't education at college or university – it was commonsense.

Every dog has its day. Some even bite.

We all have energy and when our energy aligns with what we are intending, we receive it.

Generousity invents prosperity

Every wise man lives in an observatory.

Just after the war, the liberation of 1945, [Albert] Camus was well known, well loved by [Jean-Paul ] Sartre and all the intellectuals of that generation.

I have the urge to still be part of the world, the universe, of life. Through music I have the feeling that I come a little closer to that.

The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause.

I hate the word famous because it has no substance.

After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation.

I didn't promote war when I was a weapons inspector.