"Happy the man who from the sea..." - Quote by Euripides

“To generous souls every task is noble.”

“The stillest tongue can be the truest friend.”

“New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.”

“The key to happiness is having dreams; the key to success is making them come true.”

“I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowlege among the people. no other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom, and happiness.”

“I grew convinced that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life, and I formed written resolutions . . . to practice them ever while I lived.”

“Was there no safety? No learning by heart of the ways of the world? No guide, no shelter, but all was miracle, and leaping from the pinnacle of a tower into the air? Could it be, even for elderly people, that this was life?--startling, unexpected, unknown?”

“Never get on an airplane if the pilot is wearing a hat that has more than three pastel colors.”

“Laurel and Hardy. That's John and Yoko, and we stand a better chance under that guise, because all the serious people, like Martin Luther King, and Kennedy, and Gandhi, got shot.”