"Es tan corto el amor, y tan largo el olvido. (Love is so short, and forgetting is so long.)"

"Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to."

"Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age."

"Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years."

"Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you."

"Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad."

"Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content."

"Just turn left at Greenland..."

"...simple fact that any land looks like Eden after months at sea."

"A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week."

"Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality."

"(Kenneth) Star...(has) done what I could not do in a quarter century: make pornography more widely available."

"Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient."

"We mortals with immortal minds are only born for sufferings and joys, and one could almost say that the most excellent receive joy through sufferings."

"Music, verily, is the mediator between intellectual and sensuous life... the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend."

"No leader sets out to become a leader. People set out to live their lives, expressing themselves fully. When that expression is of value, they become leaders. So the point is not to become a leader. The point is to become yourself, to use yourself completely?all your skills, gifts, and energies?in order to make your vision manifest. You must withhold nothing. You must, in sum, become the person you started out to be and enjoy the process of becoming."

"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."

"Cleverness is like a lens with a very sharp focus. Wisdom is more like a wide-angle lens."