I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

The past is never really past—it shapes who we are.

The opera is a beautiful and irrational world. One could spend a lifetime listening and still not understand everything.

I can resist everything except temptation.

You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.

The stock exchange is a poor substitute for the Holy Grail.