"A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a prediction."

“A woman well bred and well taught, furnished with the additional accomplishments of knowledge and behaviour, is a creature without comparison. Her society is the emblem of sublimer enjoyments, her person is angelic, and her conversation heavenly. She is all softness and sweetness, peace, love, wit, and delight. She is every way suitable to the sublimest wish, and the man that has such a one to his portion, has nothing to do but to rejoice in her, and be thankful.”

“My only requirement for life is that I don't get stuck in a rut.”

“Happy people learn that happiness, like sweat, is a by-product of activity.”

“Punch after punch after punch. February is a mean bully. Nothing could be worse - except August.”

“The finance enchains with golden bonds states and peoples, the economy becomes nomadic, the life uprooted.”

“I think there are [gay players] right now, and if they're looking for a window to just come out, I mean, now is the window. My view on it is, yes, I am a Christian, but to each his own. You do what you want to do.”

“There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably expected to go.”

“No matter what happens in the future, no matter where our paths take us, this moment will be ours.”