My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.

All sport ... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.

The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

The 'good old times'-all times, when old, are good.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Do what's right for you, as long as it don't hurt no one

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

The future is the shape of things to come.