"To be free of destructive stress don't sweat the small stuff and by realizing that all stuff is small."

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around every once in awhile, you could miss it."

"'The harp at Nature's advent strung has never ceased to play; the song the stars of morning sung has never died away.'"

"Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster."

"It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything."

"The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line."

"I bet the human brain is a kludge."

"Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven."

"Do or do not. There is no try."

"Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith."

"Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude."

"The first thing you lose on a diet is brain mass."