In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

Self-denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.