"Life is too important to take seriously."

"Your security does not lie in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al-Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands."

"A friend is someone who sees through you and still enjoys the view."

"We presume that we would be ready for battle if confronted with a great crisis, but it is not the crisis that builds something within usa€”it simply reveals what we are made of already."

"Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent."

"George Bush taking credit for the Berlin Wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sunrise."

"I still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me."

"Those who dona€?t build must burn. Ita€?s as old as history and juvenile delinquence."

"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact."

"Time is what prevents everything from happening at once."

"Any man with a moderate income can afford to buy more books than he can read in a lifetime."

"Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed."