"I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose."

"What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?"

"Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist."

"Electricity is really just organized lightning."

"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."

"An hour spent in deep contemplation is worth a year of unguided wandering. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon."

"Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them."

"The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour."