“To the elderly ones, you are retired but don't be tired. Just keep doing what you were doing.”

“Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find.”

“Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning.”

“When people asked me in a RV park, "What do you do?" I just said, "I'm a retired state employee from Maine."”

“If you keep on working and you don't tell people what you are doing, they lose confidence.”

“Have you seen "The Silence of the Lambs"? What were the lambs doing? They were keeping silent. I wish you doing it as well.”

“When your laboratory explodes, lacing your body with a supercharged elixir, what do you do? You don't just lie there. You crawl out of the rubble, hideously scarred, and swear vengeance on the world. You keep going. You keep trying to take over the world.”

“If you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule-stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite.”

“The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not.”

“Do what will keep you happy forever present is just a matter of hours.”