“What is wrong with you?
Many, many things.”

“You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.”

“You've no idea how long life goes on and how many, many changes it brings. Young people seem to imagine that it's over in a flash, that they do this thing, or that thing, and then die, but I can assure you they are quite wrong.”

“If you desire many things, many things will seem but a few.”

“When you were six you thought mistress meant to put your shoes on the wrong feet. Now you are older and know it can mean many things, but essentially it means to put your shoes on the wrong feet.”

“Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.”

“There are so many ways to go wrong. All we've got are metaphors, and they're never exactly right. You can never just Say. The. Thing.”

“If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.”

“Like so many other things in life, you rarely get only what you optimize for.”

“Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North”