It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.

It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.

I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody said that she does not look like it, but that does not make any difference, she will, he said.

More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale.

It is nice in France they adapt themselves to everything slowly they change completely but all the time they know that they are as they were.