Disillusions all come from within ... from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only dream it does; and when we wake, we cry!

To die for one's great ideas is glorious - and easy. The horror is to outlive them. That is our worst capability.

Talking to you is only thinking to myself - made easier.

Entertainment for entertainment's sake is the most expensive form of death.

Men are all the same. They always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.

I have always found that each step we take in life is to be regretted - if we once begin to wonder how many other steps might have been possible.

We must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets.