My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat

The only reason for being young is to outgrow it.

We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.

There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.

The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.