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

"The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad"

"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."

"There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad."

"There is nothing more unequal, than the equal treatment of unequal people."

"Life is made up of marble and mud."

"Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are and doing things as they ought to be done."

"I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say."

"Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."

"I get my exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise."