In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.

Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.

Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

Eventually, I sickened of people, myself included, who didn't think enough of themselves to make something of themselves- people who did only what they had to and never what they could have done. I learned from them the infected loneliness that comes at the end of every misspent day. I knew I could do better.

The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.