Anatole France

The more a man knows, the more he forgives.

I don’t substitute anybody else’s judgment for my own.

We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the rules.

I have a private life in which I do not permit interference. It must be respected.

[Moving to the West] was a culture shock. I had never seen cereal before! We had cottage cheese and pancakes in Russia, not colorful circles that came in cardboard boxes.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.

I have dined with kings, I’ve been offered wings. And I’ve never been too impressed.

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn’t correct. We all start with all there is, it’s how we use it that makes things possible.

If you believe, you will. If you don’t, you won’t.

Life is neither old or new, ancient or modern, but simply more or less vivid-any song or musical composition will live that expresses or reproduces this vividness of life.-From this you will see that I believe that music fills a great place. The teaching of it goes far to restore the balance and richness of life, and-I might add- the unit of life also.

I can only say that I have had a wonderful life.

Life, as I see it, is not a location, but a journey. Life flows.

I attribute whatever I may have been able to accomplish in life far more to my wife than to anything else and to everything else put together. But I cannot flatter myself that I found her because I was a ‘good picker’, I believe profoundly that we are guided, led, in such momentous matters.

When you don’t have much money, you worry that they’ll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won’t know where you are.