One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.

One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.

We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

Hope, politeness, the blowing of a nose, the squeak of a boot, all produce "boum.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.