I quote others only the better to express myself

"Each of us has a day, more or less sad, more or less distant, when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man."

"Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage."

"To err is human, to loaf is Parisian."

"Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made."

"If a man know not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?"

"It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.”

"In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other."

"I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself."

"Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice."

"Please all, and you will pleaes none."

“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”

Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.