"Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries."

"If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you?"

"If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window."

"People will always choose more money over more sex."

"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship."

"Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars."

"Every summit scaled was once thought insurmountable from the valley below. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."

"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."