"Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost."

"Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny."

"I believe that its most important function is in the formation of attachment. If we did not suffer enough loss to fear it, we could not love intensely."

"If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else."

"Anyone with more than 365 pair of shoes is a pig."

"That's a hell of an ambition, to be mellow. It's like wanting to be senile."

"Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets."

"Some people walk in the raina€| others just get weta€|"

"To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful."

"Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight."

"If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create something the size of N.A.S.A. to make one."

"Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves."