"Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are."

"When in doubt, duck."

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."

"If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues' initials on 'em, and pass them along. When in doubt, route."

"By the time we've made it, we've had it."

"Too many people overvalue what they are, and undervalue what they are not."

"You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future."

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."

"In general we are least aware of what our minds do best."

"My kittens look at me like little angels, and always after doing something especially devilish."

"Henry James chews more than he bites off."

"Vladimir: That passed the time.Estragon: It would have passed in any case.Vladimir: Yes, but not so rapidly."