"Use what talents you have; the woods would have little music if no birds sang their song except those who sang best."

"Unlike human beings, computers possess the truly profound stupidity of the inanimate."

"Life is simply the pursuit of something worth dying for."

"Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta."

"The only thing new in the world is the history that you don't know."

"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru' chinks of his cavern."

"We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless."

"Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices."

"There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation."

"The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources."

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday."

"Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord."