"Fixed ideas are like a cramp in the foot - the best remedy against it is to tread on it."

"Trust more in God. Believe that He who created you will maintain you."

"Two people do not have to agree on what is right to be together. They just have to want to be together. If this sounds simple, try it sometime."

"Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide."

"Today, people in Baghdad can watch themselves being bombed - what a horrible, magical world we live in!"

"Now they're bouncing messages off the stars. Bet the messages aren't worth the technology. Think of 'See you Friday, Ethel', chattering round the eternal spheres."

"It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants."

"A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world."

"The sane appear as strange to the mad as the mad to the sane"

"Why do we have to wait for special moments to say nice things or tell people we care about them?"

"Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family."

"Anybody can sympathise with the suffering of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success."