"Best friends are like diamonds, precious and rare. False friends are like leaves, found everywhere."

“Getting staked had been a hard lesson in choosing one's friends wisely.”

“Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.”

“When doing your aerobic exercise, go at a comfortable pace until you've developed more stamina.”

“For sure Tupac [Shakur]. Without a doubt. I have to have Pac at the party doing it!”

“Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.”

Source : "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 34e), 1980.

“If you finish like a photograph, on the other hand, the picture has as much personality as a photograph.”

“If it were not for quotations, conversations between gentlemen would consist of an endless series of 'what-ho!'s.”

“There are so many benefits to be derived from space exploration and exploitation; why not take what seems to me the only chance of escaping what is otherwise the sure destruction of all that humanity has struggled to achieve for 50,000 years?”