"Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm."

"The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius is limited."

"When you start to doubt yourself, the real world will eat you alive."

"Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him of the entire weekend."

"Government is like Junior High. Your status depends upon whom you're able to persecute."

"People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example."

"For many are called, but few are chosen."

"The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors."

"Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music."

"Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim Wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, Obtained with labor, for mankind employed, And then, when most you share it, best enjoyed."

"...the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude."

"It's amazing how nice people are to you when they know you're going away."