"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."

"Measure your life in love."

"One can always point to a time, a choice, an act that set the tone for a life and changed a personal destiny."

"The Universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."

"The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better."

"I felt despair. Though it seems to me now there's two kinds of it: the sort that causes a person to surrender and then the sort I had which made me take risks and make plans."

"It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety."

"One who says unpleasant things about others, will himself quickly become a target of their scandal."

"Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations."

"Life is too short for traffic."

"There is no slavery but ignorance."

"Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing."