"We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared."

"Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. Without them, what would shape our lives? Perhaps, if we never veered off course, we wouldn't fall in love or have babies or be who we are."

"Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary."

"Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal."

"O why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like rest of my race?"

"That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art."

"It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment."

"In all things there are three choices: Yes, No & no choice, except in this -- I either choose the truth or I am deceit."

"College football would be more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students - there would be a great increase in broken arms, legs and necks."

"To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy."

"There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking."

"No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself."