"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance."

"England and America are two countries separated by a common language."

"Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious."

"Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get."

"What is virtue but the trades unionism of the married."

"A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing."

"We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong."

"I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live."

"Imagination is the reality of the dreamer."

"In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world."

"We do not deny the possibility of peaceful [political] transition, but we are still awaiting the first case."

"There is no joy in a life that is all information. There is no 'juice' to that kind of life. No sweetness, no color. Like trading a beautiful golden-ripe orange for a stalk of whithered broccoli."