"It is difficult to live with people because it is so difficult to be silent. And not against him who is repugnant to us are we most unfair, but against him who is no concern of ours."

"He who has much to proclaim one day, stays silently much immersed within himself: he who has to kindle the lightning one day, must for a long time--be a cloud."

"People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights."

"All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses."

"Life without music would be a mistake."

"It is time, it is high time... Yes, but to do what?"

"The true test of a civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the cropsa€”no, but the kind of man the country turns out."

"A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating."

"The charms of a passing woman are usually in direct relation to the speed of her passing."

"Whatever else can be said about sex, it cannot be called a dignified performance."

"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."

"The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again."