I never said to myself, "I'm going to be the greatest." I just wanted to do my own thing..

The less it is possible that something can be, the more it must be..

Napoleon is dead - but Beethoven lives..

With God, it's possible to be content wherever we are, with whatever we have..

You're only as good as you are now - not as good as you were before..

I'm happy to be where I am and how everything has turned out..

I do like to be surprised..

I am conversational - I just like to engage and talk about things..

I'm not just anybody.' 'No, indeed. Nobody is..

I'd rather be a comma than a full stop..

You flatter me shamelessly. I like it. Good..

I grill, therefore I am..

We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find..

The more you invest in your happiness, the more happiness will invest in you..

I have a family to feed..

Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more..

I had a Vincent van Gogh, a small Provençal landscape. We sold it. If you're going to have a van Gogh it should be a really good van Gogh..

Whoever excommunicates me, excommunicates God..

But as you say in English, c'est la vie!.

The public be damned..

Strength is for service, not status.