If there was one thing I had never been, it was mysterious, and if there was one thing I had never done, it was not talk.

A planned life is a dead life.

You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks.

The best things in life are clean living, good works, and big saphires. And not in that order.

One thing I am convinced of is that the more you do, the more you can do.

Life is not what you expected it to be.

You learn to cope with whatever you have to cope with. I spent my childhood in New York, riding on subways and buses. And you know what you learn if you're a New Yorker? The world doesn't owe you a damn thing.