"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."

"To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography."

"Wisdom comes by disillusionment."

"The family is one of nature's masterpieces."

"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy."

"I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?"

"It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want to do with their computers."

"Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here."