"There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction."

"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."

"The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot."

"Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued."

"The happiest moments of my life have a been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family."

"A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century."

"Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man."

"It is fatal to be right when the rest of the world is wrong."

"The only thing good about it is you're not dead."