- A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
- If you have a little worry every day, you will lose years of your life. If something is going wrong, fix it if you can. But learn not to worry. Worry will not help you at all.
- I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
- Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
- All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened.
- Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
- If two people love each other, there can be no happy ending to it.
- The rich are not like you and me — they have more money.
- Everything that is far from the sea is the provinces.
- Today is only one of the days we have to live through. But what happens in the days to come will depend only on what we do today.
- There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.
- Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol.
- There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
- Never confuse movement with action.
- Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
- It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
- If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.
- Courage is grace under pressure.
- A man has to suffer to the bottom of his soul in order to write a truly funny book.
- There is no friend as loyal as a book.
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