"The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better."

"Wagner drives the nail into your head with swinging hammer blows."

"My teen angst has a body count."

"Property may be destroyed and money may lose it's purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge, and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions."

"It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man."

"It is strange that we do not temper our resentment of criticism with a thought for our many faults which have escaped us."

"I have learned that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved, the rest is up to them."

"Solutions- The first step toward a cure is to know what the disease is."

"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide."

"Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative."

"The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way."

"Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself."