"When you write things down, they sometimes take you places you hadn't planned."

"If you make the world a little better, then you have accomplished a great deal."

"Our goal can only be reached through a vehicle of a pain, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success."

"Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs."

"There is one certain means by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin -- I will die in the last ditch."

"I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."

"The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo."

"Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world; and whoever rescues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world."

"We just had a near-life experience!"

"Power in defense of freedom is greater than power on behalf of tyranny and oppression."

"Things have never been more like the way they are today in history."

"Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable."