"Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire."

"The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad"

"The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant."

"It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself."

"Have no fear of perfection -- you will never reach it."

"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it."

"Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it."

"A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world."

"Death is nothing, but to live defeated is to die every day."

"You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by."

"When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man."

"By asking for the impossible we obtain the possible."