Greed is but a word jealous men inflict upon the ambitious.

My taste includes both snails and oysters.

Better a friend to all his weight in gold.

only the gentlest hands can brush away tears

And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair.

The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.

I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.

I'm not here to be remembered, I'm here to be alive.

Fly! There's a lot of sky out there for brave birds.

As a child I'd get given parts as a tree.

Five minutes of today are worth as much to me, as five minutes in the next millennium. Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.

My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way.