"Things could always be worse; for instance, you could be ugly and work in the Post Office."

"True role models don't stand on a pedestal and tell you how to climb up; they jump down and help push you up."

"We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong."

"There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob."

"The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling."

"When we are born we die, our end is but the pendant of our beginning."

"The course of life is unpredictable, no one can write his autobiography in advance."

"It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame."

"It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space."

"In Kyudo philosophy, you don't aim--you become one with the target. Then, in fact, there's nothing to aim at. I find it works well with women, too. Give it a try."