"...a man may be a patriot without risking his own life or sacrificing his health. There are plenty of lives less valuable."

"We hate the very idea that our own ideas may be mistaken, so we cling dogmatically to our conjectures."

"Unlike those who pretend to be immaculate, fallen angels are usually more intriguing because their earthliness is heavenly."

"Collecting data is only the first step toward wisdom, but sharing data is the first step toward community."

"I value the friend, who for me finds time on their calendar but I cherish the friend who for me, does not consult their calendar."

"Familiarity may breed contempt in some areas of human behavior, but in the field of social ideas it is the touchstone of acceptability."

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."

"I never wanted to be the biggest guy. I just wanted to be the best."

"If you choose not to decide -- you still have made a choice!"

"Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are."

"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"

"Silence is the loudest thing I've ever heard"