"Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent."
"Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable."
"Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time."
"A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it."
"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."