"In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself."

"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."

"If you listened hard enough the first time, you might have heard what I meant to say."

"Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today."

"Parents are never as bad as kids think they are."

"There is nothing that is personal and private, it is all universal. All that stuff we share but don't admit to, and don't talk about...what is that about?"

"For now we see through a glass, darkly."

"No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country."

"Everyone is wise until he speaks."

"All normal people love meat. If I went to a barbeque and there was no meat, I would say 'Yo Goober! Where's the meat!?' I'm trying to impress people here, Lisa. You don't win friends with salad."

"A man can know nothing of mankind without knowing something of himself. Self-knowledge is the property of that man whose passions have their full play, but who ponders over their results."

"Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing buy rational actions."