We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? - Jean Cocteau

People would say to Al Brown: "You are not a boxer. You are a dancer." He laughed at this, and won.

It's perfectly normal that extraordinary things happen to me. I'm an exceptional person. Oh, don't think I'm boasting. I mean to say that, unfortunately, I'm exceptional and that, unfortunately, I can't live by the rules. I must make my own.

It is dangerous not to conform with people's image of us, because they do not readily retract their opinions.