no man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

when you win, nothing hurts.

he who fears he shall suffer already suffers what he fears.

inside myself is a place where i live alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.

i restore myself when i'm alone. a career is born in public; talent in privacy.

it's like magic. when you live by yourself, all your annoying habits are gone.

why not seize the pleasure at once? how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation?

you are the one who must choose your place.

never explain; your friends do not need it and you enemies won't believe you anyway.

never believe in mirrors or newspapers.

it is only possible to live happily-ever-after on a day-to-day basis.

think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

he that fears not the future may enjoy the present.

it's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk or running for office.

was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?

you are beaten to earth? well, well, what's that? come up with a smiling face, it's nothing against you to fall down flat, but to lie there - that's disgrace.

he's no failure. he's not dead yet.

the past is a guidepost, not a hitching post.

the only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty, not knowing what comes next.

good is not good, where better is expected.

you can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

you can never plan the future by the past.

meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

when people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.

nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

you have not lived a perfect day, even though you earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

we almost made it, but we wanted it all.

life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.

once a decision was made, i did not worry about it afterward.

what's important is finding out what works for you.

all acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

nothing happens unless first a dream.

once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

it doesn't hurt to be optimistic. you can always cry later.