“When you say that a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.”

“You know what they say about consultants, don't you? They know all the moves in the Kama Sutra but don't know any women.”

“No person ever really lives until he has found something worth dying for.”

“There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless you do it. ”

“Each of our devoted investigators has had to protest the critical importance to science and the surpassing conveniences offered by the cabin: How well the hill-and-dale floor is held together by layered patches of variegated linoleum; how nicely the roof admits starlight and yet keeps out much of the rain; how smoothly the door opens when you lift firmly on the knob; how ideally the two one-room accessory structures serve as “slave” quarters for summer assistants. And what would befall the local ward of dependent woodmice if the cabin commissary were to fail?”

“Love is making friends with fear because fear is the constant companion of intimacy ~ and when you bring fear out of the darkness and into the light, you realize it was an illusion based on our own insecurities.”

“Creativity is the essence of fencing.”