"My intent is simply to know my material so well that I'm very comfortable with it. Confidence, not perfection, is the goal."

"Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement."

"Never reason from what you do not know. If you do, you will soon believe what is utterly against reason."

"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset."

"It is better to be a beggar than ignorant; for a beggar only wants money, but an ignorant person wants humanity."

"Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others."

"The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged."

"Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning."

"We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment."

"Is there life before death?"

"You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument."

"Goodbye cruel world."