Sweet is war to those who have never experienced it.

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.

If you always live with those who are lame you will yourself learn to limp.

The clothes make the man.

It's an ill plan that cannot be changed.

Deliberation often loses a good chance.

By learning you will teach by teaching you will learn.

He fights with spirit as well as with the sword.

Fortune is fickle and soon asks back what he has given.

We are content to forgo joy when pain is also lost.

God will be present whether asked or not.

The journey itself is going to change you, so you don’t have to worry about memorizing the route we took to accomplish that change.

Playing Solitaire is a non-smoking employee’s smoke break.

Well, honey, once you've been head-over-heels in love with somebody, you don't go back to being 'friends'. It doesn't work that way. - Megan's Dad

Man is an endangered species.

Yeah, I left Idaho at 17. You know, I graduated high school a year early and just, you know, the typical story, packed up my car and moved out.

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.

So the idea of being able to shop cross-category to buy the beach bag, the summer lip gloss, and the pillows for your pool house makes it into very focused, easy life.

Nobody knows anybody. Not that well.

In war, groping tactics, half-way measures, lose everything.

When I moved to Stanford I began to pursue the line of research I have been following ever since, namely trying to understand the larger implications of fractional quantum hall discovery.