“I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.”

“Service to others is the rent yo pay for your room here on earth.”

“The one without dreams is the one without wings.”

“If I had but two loaves of bread, I would sell one and buy hyacinths, for they would feed my soul.”

“A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.”

“كن في حياتك كمتن نص في الكتاب، ودع الحواشي لوقت الأزمات”

“One night I was sitting on the bed in my hotel room on Buker Hill, down in the middle of Los Angeles. It was an important night in my life, because I had to make a decision about the hotel. Either I paid up or I got out: that was what the note said, the note the landlady had put under my door. A great problem, deserving acute attention. I solved it by turning out the lights and going to bed.”