Handle the little things well

Luck is flow and force. There's no power that can fully take that into account, fate is still wavering.

It's no use going the extra mile if people don't expect it. You will never get extra credit for it. Just invest it on something else.

I was born into the world as the king of truth for the salvation of the world.

I'll do shoes for the lady who lunches, but it would be, like, a really nasty lunch, talking about men.

No man can love a second time the person whom he has once truly ceased to love.

Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.

Every form of true education trains the student in self-reliance

You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. (Oscar trying to talk his way out of a speeding ticket)

Todays impossibilities are tomorrows miracles.

The world of conceptualized ideas is quite wonderful, even when it's - like Aristotle's Physics - an outmoded book. The physics is not true. But the reasoning is dazzling.