"A plan is just a tangent vector on the manifold of reality."

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try, and try again. Then give up. There's no use being a damned fool about it."

"'I think therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches."

"We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another."

"Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem (Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.)"

"You may regret your silence once, but you will regret your words often."

"'Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent."

"A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist."

"After you've been in a place for a while, everything starts to look... I won't say better, there's no need to go to extremes...but your everyday life does start to become...familiar."

"So long as there are men there will be wars."

"You must believe in God in spite of what the clergy say."

"Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!"