“Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.”

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple.

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

A drunken man is happier than a sober one.

Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.

The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery – it’s the sincerest form of learning.

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

Animals are my friends and I don’t eat my friends.

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you’ll find you’ve done it.

Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.

We are all born mad, some remain so.

Men are born soft and supple; dead they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry.

If you are born poor its not your mistake, But if you die poor its your mistake.

When I was born, that was the music my mother was listening to. Michael Jackson is a third parent to me.

I wouldn’t say I was a born writer; I’m a born thinker.

Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.

Friendship is born from an identity of spiritual goals – from common navigation toward a star.