Always obey your parents. When they are present. This is the best policy in the long run. Because if you don't, they will make you. Most parents think they know better than you do, and you can generally make more by humoring that superstition than you can by acting on your own better judgment.

Every inventor is a crackpot until his idea succeeds.

In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.

Let us swear while we may, for in heaven it will not be allowed

Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

Recipe for a long life: Only smoke while awake. Only run when being chased.

Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak.