"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars"

"The biggest coward is a man who awakens a woman’s love with no intention of loving her"

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves"

"Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop"

"Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work"

"Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage"

"Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting"

"Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible"

"He is not a lover who does not love forever"

"Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there"

"I love to travel, but hate to arrive"