"All dimensions are critical dimensions, otherwise why are they there?"

"If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for."

"Barnum was wrong - it's more like every 30 seconds."

"Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music."

"I suppose that it goes to show that you have to be very careful what you pretend to be . . . because, one day, you may wake up to find that's what you are."

"To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer."

"Tis the advisor who suffers from bad advice."

"Every big problem was at one time a wee disturbance."

"Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters."

"Giving is a necessity sometimes... more urgent, indeed, than having."

"To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future."

"Eternity is very long, especially towards the end."