“There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.”

Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.

When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.

The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.

I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?

Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.

You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.

She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.

If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.

The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.

Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.

You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.

We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge.

No one knows the cost of a defective product – don’t tell me you do.

I have no desire at all to become the winningest coach at Notre Dame. The record belongs to Knute Rockne or some other coach in the future.

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea.

In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.

I analyse in my own way, in very simple, no-jargon language. If somebody is talking in very complicated way, I never like that.

There is so much more demand for Formula One than it can supply.

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.