"To the Nahuas, words were flowers, metaphors that gave birth to thoughts and actions."

"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country."

"Worse than a bad musician is a mercenary (musician). We need money to live but we don鈥檛 live to receive money. Besides, a pig with a gold chain on his neck always will be a pig"

"O what fine thought we had because we thought that the worst rogues and rascals had died out."

"The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much as it would take others a whole year to achieve."

"Enzymes are things invented by biologists that explain things which otherwise require harder thinking."

"There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool."

"True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes."

"I am not bound to please thee with my answers."

"Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies."

"I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's."

"Life's experiences are intended to make you eventually face yourself. Face reality!"