I always say, if you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.

You can never know everything. Part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of knowledge lies in going on anyway.

A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.

Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.

You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long.

Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die?