Neat trick: to be roused to ambition and reconciled to one's mediocrity at the same time.

While we are reading, we are all Don Quixote.

I deplore my shortcomings, but plan to keep them.

Successful innovations become conventions.

People often are unsure whether or not they are in love, but they generally know whether or not they are having sex.

Intelligence in isolation turns to aimless marauding.

Skepticism may undermine beliefs, but never belief.