“It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”

All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings — always darker, emptier and simpler.

Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.

A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men.

He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster.

I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.

One must learn to love.

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.

I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed.

One cannot do humour without a great sympathy for one’s fellow man.

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

Ah, yes, divorce, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man’s genitals through his wallet.

They asked me why I don’t quit drinking, I told ’em I’m not a quitter.

If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?

Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.

You’re not a man, you’re a mushroom!