"It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation."

"I'm not an ambulance chaser. I'm usually there before the ambulance."

"Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice."

"Don't flail against the world, use it. Flexibility is the operative principle in the art of war."

"A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission."

"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money"

"Religiously strict people, who judge themselves without mercy, are also those who have most often spoken ill of mankind in general."

"Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts."

"Everything that God created is potentially holy, and our task as humans is to find that holiness in seemingly unholy situations. When we can do this, we will have learned to nurture our souls."

"Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment."

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."

"The impossible is often the untried."