memory is to love what the saucer is to the cup.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

With passion you want to possess. The conversion of passion into compassion is the whole problem of marriage.

The only things that can ever be universal, in a sense, are scaling things.

Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.

As far as I remember, even younger than eight, I have always been guided by reason. Not cold reason, but that which leads to the truth, to the real, and to sane Justice.

I do some of my best reading while seated in the bathroom.

Each of us have a gift, you see, given us freely by the universe. And each of us with every breath gives something back

Since I started in motor racing I've worked with people from all over the world. We are all here to go racing and prejudice will never play any part in that.

A poet is one who can call forth the good latent in the human beast.

I think violence is counter-productive and it is bad in democratic societies.

Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.