It's hot. And there's a lot of it. I like everything about it except the flavor. - Peter Ustinov

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool, an optimist must know what a sad place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

Ein Philosoph ist ein Mann, der in Ermangelung einer Frau die ganze Welt umarmt.