As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ... they signify nothing in the intellectual life of the race.

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.

When you love and it hurt, love more and love without expectation.

An owl sound wandered along the road with me.I didn't hear it--I breathed it into my ears.

Ultimate serenity is the coming to rest of all ways of taking things, the repose of named things; no truth has been taught by a Buddha for anyone, anywhere.

When we feel that we are not sufficiently respected, we should ask ourselves whether we are living as we should.

I was a skinny, scrawny guy. I stuttered horrendously, couldn't speak at all. I was a very shy, reserved player and a very shy, reserved person. I found a safe place in life in basketball.

I know how to treat my voice to make it sound as good as it possibly can - which is still not that good.

I have learned that God’s silence to my questions is not a door slammed in my face. I may not have the answers—but I do have him.

We're fighting against humanism, we're fighting against liberalism...we are fighting against all the systems of Satan that are destroying our nation today...our battle is with Satan himself.

Some people spend the whole of their lives sitting waiting for one train, only to find that they never even made it to the station.

If I took fear out of the equation, what would I change about how I spend my days?