"Only the gentle are ever really strong."

"My mother said to me, if you go into the military, you will become a general. If you go into the clergy, you will become Pope. Instead, I became an artist, and I am Piccaso."

"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first then seek to win."

"A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her."

"Many people seem to think that opportunity means a chance to get money without earning it."

"America, why are your libraries full of tears?"

"The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect."

"A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything."

"A scholar is the favorite of Heaven and of earth; The excellence of one's country, The happiest of mankind."

"Man's ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creation and its creatures."

"I just need enough to tide me over until I need more."

"Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them."