"When the student is ready. . . the lesson appears."

"I love and I hate. How can this be, you ask in vain. I know not, but I feel it to be so and am wracked with pain."

"Beware of the man who knows the answer before he understands the question."

"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."

"It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be."

"For all I've fought and gained; only the thoughts of what I've lost remain."

"All we know is still infinitely less than all that remains unknown."

"To realize one鈥檚 Personal Legend is a person鈥檚 only real obligation."

"Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war."

"Living in California adds ten years to a man's life. And those extra ten years I'd like to spent in New York."

"He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach."

"One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich."