Be willing to commit yourself to a course, perhaps a long and hard one, without being able to foresee exactly where you will come out.

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.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

It's your way of fighting. You refuse to engage and then you can't lose.

The simple act of smiling at people makes the world a better place. Unless it's the day you decide to walk around with your dong out.

"State," I call it, where they all drink poison, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all lose themselves, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all call their slow suicide-"life."

The plant is blind but it knows enough to keep pushing upwards towards the light, and it will continue to do this in the face of endless discouragements.

So, I'm 34. I'm kind of becoming an adult - kind of, I guess. But I know that I am because, the other day, I said to somebody, 'Dude, dude, don't - those are the good plates.

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority.

If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief.

Always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty.