"If you can't return a favor, pass it on."

"To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary."

"It strkes me as singularly inappropriate for a school to use its students for fund-raising. It reminded me of the first time I saw a gypsy mother send her baby out to beg."

"There's only one way to fall down, but you won't know till you hit the ground."

"A book may be compared to your neighbor; if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early."

"If the programmer can simulate a construct faster then the compiler can implement the construct itself, then the compiler writer has blown it badly."

"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go."

"Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul."

"You don't die of a broken heart, you only wish you did."

"The cable TV sex channels don't expand our horizons, don't make us better people, and don't come in clearly enough."

"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude."

"Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat"