"I knew I'd been living in Berkeley too long when I saw a sign that said 'Free firewood' and my first thought was 'Who was Firewood and what did he do?'"

"Use what talents you have; the woods would have little music if no birds sang their song except those who sang best."

"Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses."

"There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window."

"Concern should drive us into action and not into depression."

"God's mill grinds slow but sure."

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."

"The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die."

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

"Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality."

"The good man is the friend of all living things."

"And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country."