“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.”

“If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”

“When people are very quotable, it can make it harder to listen to what they actually have to say.”

“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life.”

“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.”