"The shortest distance between two points is not a very interesting journey."

"Most of us would like to be smarter than we are, stronger than we are, richer than we are, but we don't feel all that comfortable with people who are."

"I think that is what love is - when it's unimaginable to be away from the person, and you care about what makes them happy more than what makes you happy."

"Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of."

"Master your instrument, master the music, and then forget all that crap and just play."

"Where there is no vision, the people perish."

"Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different."

"He will give the devil his due."

"We've kept the good old vices and labored to invent a few, With cake in vulgar surplus we can have it, and eat it too"

"After the greatest clouds, the sun."

"I believe it to be true that dreams are the true interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them."

"Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase."