"Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word 'academic' in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation."

"Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness."

"Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it."

"I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles."

"Friendship is love with understanding."

"Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again."

"I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And therea€?s purpose and worth to each and every life."

"Van Gogh became a painter because he had no ear for music."

"Anxiety is interest paid on trouble before it is due."

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome."

"To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell."

"He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended."