"Everything you do in life, every choice you make, has a consequence. When you do things without thinkin', then you ain't makin' the choice. The choice is makin' you."

"Mahatma Gandi was what wives wish their husbands were: thin, tan and moral."

"Another one of them new worlds. No beer, no women, no pool parlors - nothin'. Nothing to do but throw rocks at tin cans and we got to bring our own tin cans."

"I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle - so all is peace."

"You will make all kinds of mistakes but as long as you are generous and true and fierce you cannot hurt the world, or even seriously distress her."

"To state a theorem and then to show examples is literally to teach backwards."

"I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets."

"Feed a fever, starve a cold. Lightly sup with rickets."

"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it."

"It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."

"By lack of understanding they remained insane."

"The good poet sticks to his real loves, to see within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race."