"If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now."

"The more you pay for a rubber flower, the harder it is to say it's not real."

"I felt despair. Though it seems to me now there's two kinds of it: the sort that causes a person to surrender and then the sort I had which made me take risks and make plans."

"Love never keeps a man from pursuing his Personal Legend. If he abandons that pursuit, it鈥檚 because it wasn鈥檛 true love."

"Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow."

"Envy is what makes you, when an aquaintance is lustily telling you that she's dating a Greek god of a guy, ask, 'Which one, Hades?'"

"Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience."

"But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate."

"If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock."

"The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'"

"Maybe the greatest challenge now is to find a way to keep independence while also committing ourselves to the ties that bind people, families, and ultimately societies together."

"One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."