"When you catch a glimpse of your potential, that's when passion is born."

"I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion."

"The purpose of education is to give the student the intellectual tools to analyze, whether verbally or numerically, and to reach conclusions based on logic and evidence."

"The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided, but never hit softly."

"Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."