"If the day and the night are such that you greet them with with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, more elastic, more starry, more immortal--that is your success."

"Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it but as I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is."

"A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince."

"The light that puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake."

"Heroes are often the most ordinary of men."

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, how ever measured or far away."

"What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?"

"A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read."

"'Hello,' he lied."

"McCabe's Law: Nobody _has_ to do _anything_."

"The world is divided into two kinds of people, those who spend a great deal of time saving money, and those who spend a great deal of money saving time."

"Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope."