We all have a contract with the public—in us they see themselves, or what they would like to be.

Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.

There lurks in every human heart a desire of distinction which inclines every man first to hope and then to believe that nature has given him something peculiar to himself. 

All people have the common desire to be elevated in honor, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

When I do a show, the whole show revolves around me, and if I don’t show up, they can just forget it.