When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle; when you talk to the ignorant, brag; when you talk to the sagacious, look very humble and ask their opinion.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

Man does not live by words alone despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Medical research is needed, and I just saw there was a need for help that the government - state or federal - was not spending the taxpayers' money on helping people get through college.

The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.

I do not believe in the TRANSFER of an individual. I believe in the TRANSFER of entire villages.

Software never was perfect and won't get perfect. But is that a license to create garbage? The missing ingredient is our reluctance to quantify quality.

No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling.

A person with power has control of their emotions. A person with power can stop fear, stop depression, or they can augment a positive emotion.

The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life.

Thank you guys. Thank you for never giving up on me.