Life is to be lived as a magnificent adventure, or not at all.

I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.

There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. The odors of fruits waft me to my southern home, to my childhood frolics in the peach orchard. Other odors, instantaneous and fleeting, cause my heart to dilate joyously or contract with remembered grief. Even as I think of smells, my nose is full of scents that start awake sweet memories of summers gone and ripening fields far away.

Ideas without action are useless.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Reality even when it is sad is better than illusions. Illusions are at the mercy of any winds that blow. Real happiness must come from within, from a fixed purpose and faith in one's fellow men.