"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice."

"Be polite to all, but intimate with few."

"Change, when it comes, cracks everything open."

"Do not ask God the way to heaven; he will show you the hardest one."

"Stupidity is the devil. Look in the eye of a chicken and you'll know. It's the most horrifying, cannibalistic, and nightmarish creature in this world."

"Alea Iacta est... (the dice is cast)"

"He is the better equipped for life. As for swimming, who has the less to carry."

"You have dreamed too well, O wise archdreamer, for you have drawn dream's gods away from the world of all men's vision to that which is wholly yours,..."

"If you don't have solid beliefs you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon."

"Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper until you get the right answer."