"Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!"

"Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good."

"Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders."

"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man."

"For verily, my brothers, the spirit is a stomach."

"A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions!"

"Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; all is vanity."

"I say 'girl' because I love to annoy people. I love the word 'girl'. 'Gal' is pretty great, too. I don't just want to be called a woman. It sounds like someone with a mustache."

"Growing up, I always wanted to be just like Abe Lincoln. Dead."

"Before a war, military science seems a real science, like astronomy. After a war it seems more like astrology."

"A person travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it."

"Bad is never good until worse happens."