"Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers."

"A careless speech writer includes the word 'paradigm' in President Reagan's speech on superconductivity. Yes, he pronounces it 'paradijum.'"

"The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds."

"What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find."

"Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world."

"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get."

"Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not."

"There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening."

"Myself, I prefer life without fires, without nocturnal panics."

"Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them."