"This only is certain, that there is nothing certain; and nothing more miserable and yet more arrogant than man."

"In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment."

"Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?"

"The best plan is to profit by the folly of others."

"The only certainty is that nothing is certain."

"From the end spring new beginnings."

"Reprimand not a child immediately on the offence. Wait till the irritation has been replaced by serenity."

"It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back."

"If the day and the night are such that you greet them with with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, more elastic, more starry, more immortal--that is your success."

"Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Nixon and the White House."

"I spend almost as much time figuring out what's wrong with my computer as I do actually using it."

"It鈥檚 not the fall that kills you; it鈥檚 the sudden stop at the end."