"When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."

"There are no hopeless situations; There are only people who have grown hopeless about them."

"To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately."

"The world is divided into two kinds of people, those who spend a great deal of time saving money, and those who spend a great deal of money saving time."

"The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one."

"Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty."

"Spinnin' a rope is fun if your neck ain't in it."

"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."

"A private individual may do anything except that which is legally forbidden; A government individual may do nothing except that which is legally permitted."

"When up they gat an' shook their lugs, Rejoic'd they werena MEN but DOGS."

"Love is a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species."

"Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit."