Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.

Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest... beautiful, no. Amusing, yes.

Is that what they call a vocation, what you do with joy as if you had fire in your heart, the devil in your body?

I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too.

What am I most ashamed of in my life? Not keeping my promise to my sister and being too scared of America to attend her funeral.

You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can't go wrong. The world is behind you.

I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could not walk into a hotel in America and get a cup of coffee, and that made me mad.