"Whatever you can conceive or imagine is but a fragment of yourself."

“I feel like I'm indirectly showing people, not that there's another way, but just that if you really have a dream, you should try and give it a go.”

“Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.”

“Remember, Monsieur, that Saint Augustine says that a person who does not obey the doctors is doing his best to kill himself.”

“In order to improve the condition of mankind all men must be given the certainty of security through the exchange of safeguards, the assurance of prosperity through an exchange of resources, the reality of freedom through the free movement of information, persons and ideas.”

“Ive been fortunate to come on places where the question isnt why did I do it? The question to me is always, why didnt anybody else do it before me? Those are the ones that I scratch my head about.”

“[Books] may sleep for a while and be neglected; but whenever the desire of information springs up in the human breast, there they are with mild wisdom ready to instruct and please us.”

Source : Ann Plato (1988). “Essays: Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Poetry”, p.27, Oxford University Press on Demand

“I am an old-fashioned preacher of the old-time religion, that has warmed this cold world's heart for two thousand years.”

“My real problem was certainly decisions I made, and the optimism that I had in making them. Y'know, I mean, I lived within this kind of nimbus of optimism, that, no matter what I encountered, I would always overcome it. Well, optimism can be your worst enemy as well as your best friend, but the other side of this is, that, y'know, expenses grow. But our incomes have not.”

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