"When kids hit the age of one, they're like miniature drunks. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh, then two minutes later they're crying. They drool."

"Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development."

"For all I've fought and gained; only the thoughts of what I've lost remain."

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."

"Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems."

"I would like to take you seriously but to do so would affront your intelligence."

"Every time one laughs a nail is removed from one's coffin."

"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."

"If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living."

"True writers have a lot more invested in the way they've written their books than in what those books happen to be about."

"Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others."

"If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life."