I am writing My Life to laugh at myself, and I am succeeding.

Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.

If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious.

There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.

I have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable hatred towards the whole tribe of fools, and it arises from the fact that I feel myself a blockhead whenever I am in their company.

The story she had told me was possible, but it was not believable.