"There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction."

"Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire."

"The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant."

"Have no fear of perfection -- you will never reach it."

"There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad."

"The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot."

"I always turn to the sports pages first, which record people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures."

"Perserverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another."

"Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing -- and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even."

"Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need to know."

"I am wealthy in my friends."

"If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time."