Credit is a young man's capital.

Most people are boring and stupid.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.'

But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.

Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.

California is an Italy without its art.