"When women kiss, it always reminds me of prizefighters shaking hands."

"Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time."

"I'd rather smoke one cigar than hear two sermons."

"A scholar is the favorite of Heaven and of earth; The excellence of one's country, The happiest of mankind."

"The more you know, the less you need to show."

"The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man."

"Life's truest happiness is found in friendships we make along the way."

"The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation."

"I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become."

"Because he has never forgiven himself any fault, he can forgive no one else's."