"To live is well, but to live well is better"

"Do not spit in the well - you may be thirsty by and by."

"There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out."

"Gossip needs no carriage."

"A kind word is like a spring day."

"It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats."

"History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history."

"It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech."

"People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy."

"I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."

"A long time ago, there was a man as misunderstood as we are and they nailed him to a fucking cross!"

"Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening."