"Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire."

"It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself."

"Have no fear of perfection -- you will never reach it."

"There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad."

"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it."

"The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot."

"Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic."

"I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government: 'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.'"

"You can not gain peace by avoiding life."

"We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt."

"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."

"A person who forgoes the use of his symbolic skills is never really free."