"Death doesn't really worry me that much, I'm not frightened about it... I just don't want to be there when it happens."

"The Pythagorean ... having been brought up in the study of mathematics, thought that things are numbers ... and that the whole cosmos is a scale and a number."

"Pain is a very precious gift. Do not waste it."

"Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself."

"We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing."

"Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."

"Short sentences drawn from long experiences."

"A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, 'You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.'"

"A diplomat is a man who says you have an open mind, instead of telling you that you have a hole in the head."

"As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information."