"Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool."

"Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel."

"To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it."

"Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul."

"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality."

"I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will."

"The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue."

"Funny enough, if you are looking at people these days who are putting Botox in their face and getting all sorts of plastic surgery, we look at them and go, I can tell you've had Botox. I can tell you've had plastic surgery. You look really strange to me. But no one's saying anything. We're just accepting the fact that they're strange-looking."