"The best hope is that one of these days the ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away - leaving people with nothing more to stand on than what they have so bloody well stood for up to now."

"Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all - to see life as it is, and not as it ought to be."

"Minds are like parachutes...they only function when they are open."

"The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment."

"You can overcome any obstacles by asking the right questions of the right people at the right time, then act on that advice with passion."

"If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy."

"In adversity remember to keep an even mind."

"Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use."

"If a rhinoceros were to enter this resteraunt now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I would be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever."

"An Irishman is the only man in the world who will step over the bodies of a dozen naked women to get to a bottle of stout."

"If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished."

"There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency."