"If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation."

"They have Easter egg hunts in Philadelphia, and if the kids don't find the eggs, they get booed."

"There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing."

"The best place a person can die, is where they die for others."

"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter."

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it."

"You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul."

"I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness."

"No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en; In brief, sir, study what you most affect."

"God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart."