“We say that the plow made civilization but for that matter, so did manure.”

“We can never get to the Promised Land, for if we did, it would not longer be the Promised Land.”

“I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is that they must change if they are to get better.”

“The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.”

“Everything that matters in life flows through tubes.”

“There are no lessons to be learned from the past. This is the first thing I learned from it. There is nothing back then that there isn't here now. There is nothing here now - nothing that matters - that wasn't back then. What matters. Are you a good person? Do you have any love in your heart? What would you do in a given circumstance? It all comes down to something like that.”

“The excuses we make to ourselves when we want to do something are excellent material for soliloquies, for they are rarely made except when we are alone, and are very often made aloud.”