"No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth."

"The chains are only as strong as the mind that conceives them."

"The greatest trick is to make people believe you are doing something impossible."

"I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am…"

"I must fling myself down and writhe; I must strive with every piece of force I possess; I bruise and batter myself against the floor, the walls; I strain and sob and exhaust myself, and begin again, a…"