"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world."

"The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness."

"Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour."

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."

"I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out."

"The thing you don't dream about as a kid is all the peripheral stuff that comes with success."

"The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes."

"They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake."