"Knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do."

"Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy."

"A precedent embalms a principle."

"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it."

"You can call it the 'Perfect Moment' when the universe aligns and the music in your head actually matches the music outside and all is well."

"If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race."

"Such laboured' nothings in so strange a style amaze the un-learned and make the learned smile."

"To feel the right emotions is fully as important as to hold the right ideas, and the great service of religion is the development of the right emotions."

"Peace is costly, but it is worth the expense."

"Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid."