Life is always uncertain, and common prudence dictates to every man the necessity of settling his temporal concerns, while it is in his power, and while the mind is calm and undisturbed.

Whomever lives, gambles with life.

There's no absolutes in life - only vodka.

Where it all ends I can't fathom, my friends. If I knew, I might toss out my anchor.

Every time I think that I'm getting old and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

How little can we foresee the consequences either of wise or unwise action, of virtue or of malice. Without this measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.