A sense of wrongdoing is an enhancement of pleasure.

All limitations are self-imposed.

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.

This is a court of law, not a court of justice.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins.

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

and the afterglow...of your gaze...is the onlysweater that I need.

Reckon your weakness as praise of God’s power, endure suffering in joy, risk your life on the veracity of Christ, count your loneliness a means of grace.

Architecture is politics.

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

Every farm woodland, in addition to yielding lumber, fuel and posts, should provide its owner a liberal education. This crop of wisdom never fails, but it is not always harvested.

It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.

If I had a wand and could put statues in different places, one of the statues would go to a man who just died, called Norman Borlaug, who came up with the Green Revolution.

But I know that I'm not who I was supposed to be. Who I could have been. And I know it's because I was too afraid for too long.

Ignorance cannot always be inferred from inaccuracy; knowledge is not always present.

A government that understands the limits of power as well as its potential.