"Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing."

"Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood."

"In a war of ideas it is people who get killed."

"Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured."

"Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind."

"You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories."

"The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books."

"Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art."

"First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent."

"Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody."

"Never lie when the truth is more profitable."

"Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?"

"The first requisite for immortality is death."

"Telling lies does not work in advertising."

"When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet."

"When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy."

"Value your words. Each one may be the last."

"People find life entirely too time-consuming."

"The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper."

"You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience."