"Who in their right mind counts the tiles on the floor when they go visiting a neighbor?"

“"His words moved people closer to God." I'd be happy if that's what people said about me at the end of the day. It's always been my calling.”

“Training is a good dog, a constant companion and an utterly loyal and devoted friend, and everyone should have one. Education is a nagging counselor. And, I am convinced, everyone does have one. It happens, however, that some nagging counselors have grown strong by a certain kind of nourishment. Others are weak and puny, even infantile, having never been nourished at all.”

“I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication - and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.”

“Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or dark, seabeaten ships.”

“Nobody is born a winner, but anyone can develop the way of thought that guides you to the right direction.”

“Newton's theory is not 'not right', it just does not cover all distances. Contrary to popular belief, theories in science are not proven wrong, they are just replaced by more complete and convenient theories. To sound provocative, even the geocentric theory was never "proven" wrong, it is just not as convenient as the heliocentric theory, since it requires endless epicycles.”

“At present every coachman and every waiter argues about whether or not the relativity theory is correct.”

“I have not wasted life, but life hath wasted me.”