"The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind."

"Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word 'academic' in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation."

"When life hands you a lemon, say 'Yeah, I like lemons. What else ya got?'"

"That's the key to having it all: stop expecting it to look like what you thought it was going to look like."

"It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you."

"I refuse to be labeled immoral merely because I am godless."

"Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it."

"I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars."

"To believe with certainty we must begin by doubting."

"Without geography you're nowhere."

"People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold."

"It is never too late with us, so long as we are aware of our faults and bear them impatiently."