"Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one."

"I mistrust all systemizers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity."

"Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them."

"On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow."

"The higher a man gets, the smaller he seems to those who cannot fly."

"To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence."

"Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."

"It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life."

"Bisonburger from the herd that appeared in 'Dances With Wolves.'"

"We can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown."

"Truth crushed to the earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again."

"In terms of being late or not starting at all, then it's never too late."