“There is nothing perfectly true for man; I mean in human opinions. Just like there is nothing perfectly round.”

“A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.”

“I'm proud that I was able to start with nothing, plan it, and have it work as perfectly as it did… I sleep clearly every night.”

“I never can understand how anyone can not smoke — it deprives a man of the best part of life … with a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him — literally.”

“In the human form, as nature tries to make it, every feature is useful and every feature is beautiful. Each member is perfectly adapted to the function it has to perform; nothing is superfluous”

“Tore up my heart and shut it down. Nothing to do, nowhere to be. A simple little kind of free. Nothing to do, no one but me, and that's all I need. I'm perfectly lonely.”

“… nothing ever happens quickly (except when it does). Nothing is ever, ever easy (except when it is). And, most of all, nothing ever goes perfectly according to plan (except in the movies).”

“The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.”

“To be perfectly just is an attribute in the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.”

“There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.”