"Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire."

"The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad"

"The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant."

"I don't do drugs: I am drugs."

"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it."

"The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot."

"He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to all contingencies of life; but the fool contends, and struggling, like a swimmer, against the stream."

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try, and try again. Then give up. There's no use being a damned fool about it."

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"

"No man loves life like him that's growing old."

"Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions."

"Every man's work shall be made manifest."