"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil."

"I don't know how to have casual conversation. You think you're talking about one thing, and either you are and it's incredibly boring, or you're not because it's subtext and you need a decoder ring."

"We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people."

"The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man...only five hundred."

"Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading."

"The vice-presidency ain't worth a pitcher of warm spit."

"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he doesn't exist."

"Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of."

"The quality of American life must keep pace with the quantity of American goods. This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor."

"My curiosity is my creativity on the way to discovery."

"Happiness is a warm puppy."

"And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know."