"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward."

"Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. (Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.)"

"To judge the real importance of an individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce."

"Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact."

"The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good."

"You are only as wise as others perceive you to be."

"I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others."

"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to belive it."

"Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness."

"Above all things, reverence yourself."