"By asking for the impossible we obtain the possible."

"It is not enough to aim; you must hit."

"By learning to obey, you will know how to command."

"One may have good eyes and yet see nothing."

"Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box."

"A wise man cares not for that which he cannot have."

"To die will be an awfully big adventure."

"The two most evangelical groups in the world are atheists and vegetarians, especially the least knowledgeable and least intelligent individuals within those groups."

"Unfortunately, money is freedom in today's world."

"Purpose is but the slave to memory, of violent birth, but poor validity."

"Take what you can use and let the rest go by."

"He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it."