"A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts."

"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm."

"It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship."

"Total absence of humor renders life impossible."

"The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time."

"I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer."

"Everything you see I owe to spaghetti."

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... it has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival."

"If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had."

"There's a whole segment of the population with a mentality that bases good times on where they can go and what they can buy."

"Nothing is more depressing than the conviction that one is not a hero."

"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun."