Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.

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.

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

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

Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.

Certitude is not the test of certainty.

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.

Let it be that your life becomes the brightest light that enlightens the whole world.

...I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do...

Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.

A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.

Every year it takes less time to fly across the Atlantic and more time to drive to the office.

The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds.

I am a ham. I've no business being rock 'n' roll. I've said it over and over again that I'm a classical composer, dishevelling my personality by dabbling in rock 'n' roll.

One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the game has been allowed to run down fearfully.

It's important for that to exist in a society that doesn't present you with any genuine problems.

I would not have so many scripts being driven by demographics. The play's the thing - not the 18-35 year old male age group.