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

"If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot."

"He that jokes confesses."

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

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

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

"If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation."

"If you try to make something just to fit your uninformed view of some hypothetical market, you will fail. If you make something special and powerful and honest and true, you will succeed."

"Television and film demand that people at all levels have brass balls or brass ovaries. Unfortunately, we live in the reign of the eunuch."

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."

"I tried to commit suicide by sticking my head in the oven, but there was a cake in it."

"No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities."