"Use what talents you have; the woods would have little music if no birds sang their song except those who sang best."

"You've decided to love me for eternity and I'm still deciding who I want to be today."

"Curiosity is the key to creativity."

"Some people think a song without words isn't a real song. Tell that to Beethoven and he'll kick your ass!"

"If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain as he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought and could be."

"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

"A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing."

"Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self."

"I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink."

"I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific."