After sixty years the stern sentence of the burial service seems to have a meaning that one did not notice in former years. There begins to be something personal about it.

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.

Your greatest gift is your life.

I love you to insanity. I'm not even sure if it's a good thing.'' — Duke

I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.

Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.

The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US.

My strength and my weakness is that I see normally impersonal events vividly and personally.

No coffee is ever quite as good as it smells.

There are no limits to your possibilities! Your successes will multiply and increase in proportion to your mastery of the law.

I know this golf tournament has my name on it but it's not about me. It's about the Louisiana Tech family. There is nothing greater than being a part of the Bulldog family.

I see the collapse of the Soviet Union as a great tragedy of the XX century.