"Geschichte ist [...] ein Dialog zwischen Gegenwart und Vergangenheit. [re-transl.:] History is [...] a dialogue between the present and the past."

"Serendipity: Look for something, find something else, and realize what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for."

"Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness."

"Where there is no hope, there can be no endeavor."

"When something (an affliction) happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it."

"Worrying about gray hair when your weight's soaring out of control is like mowing your lawn while your house is on fire."

"Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life."

"Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character."

"When someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny?"

"A book is like a garden carried in the pocket."

"Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed."

"It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars."