"There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe."

"The Office does not sanctify the holder of it."

"A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits."

"Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it."

"The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive."

"Money is a powerful aphrodisiac. But flowers work almost as well."

"When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either."

"Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you."

"One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man."

"Enjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is."

"All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you."

"An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason."