"I finally realized that being a role model doesn't mean people are encouraged to be like me -- they're encouraged to go out and be more of themselves."

"Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby."

"If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet."

"Geschichte ist [...] ein Dialog zwischen Gegenwart und Vergangenheit. [re-transl.:] History is [...] a dialogue between the present and the past."

"An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent."

"There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words."

"The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it."

"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."

"If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles."

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."

"It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time."

"Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime."