Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.

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 live is to laugh, as to laugh is to live.

Existence is tedious, anyway.

For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.

I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs.

The great musicians are those who can reach people, who can make people feel something.

One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.

Our skin colours may vary, but what's upstairs - there's certain things we've all got in common.

I must study war and politics so that my children shall be free to study commerce, agriculture and other practicalities, so that their children can study painting, poetry and other fine things.

In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.

Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.