"Mistakes and disappointment make the sweet things in life that much sweeter."

"Like democracy, civilization has to be willed and practice. Otherwise, society is a war of all against all, powered by individual cunning in the pursuit of wealth and power."

"Courage is the fear of being thought a coward."

"Pluralitas non ponenda est sine necessitate"

"Into blinding darkness enter those who worship ignorance and those who delight in knowledge enter into still greater darkness, as it were."

"It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can."

"Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world."

"Touch not; taste not; handle not."

"There is nothing in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and he who considers price only is that man's lawful prey."

"I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up."

"Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity."

"I love surprises and coincidences. I love them even more when I don't pass them off as luck, but rather recognize them as a sign that my life's course is right on track."