"There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction."

"Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire."

"The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad"

"It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself."

"Have no fear of perfection -- you will never reach it."

"There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad."

"We don't get offered crises, they arrive."

"I've been to one world's fair, a picnic and a rodeo and that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard come over a set of headphones."

"Dieu me pardonnera. C'est son metier. (God will forgive me. It's his job.)"

"The argument that making contraceptives available to young people would prevent teen pregnancies is ridiculous. That's like offering a cookbook as a cure to people who are trying to lose weight."

"It is destruction to the weak man to attempt to imitate the powerful."

"Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge."