Certainty generally is illusion and repose is not the destiny of man.

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.

I sometimes think that animals are incapable of the kinds of cruelty that humans willingly inflict on each other.

When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.

To be clever enough to get all that money one must be stupid enough to want it.

It is naturally only a coincidence that all too often, American foreign-policy objectives dovetail nicely with the economic objectives of multinational corporations.

I have a tendency toward being a micromanager. Which, the bigger the project you're involved in, the harder that becomes.

I may be the only person, the only presidential candidate who never carried the state in which he was born.

I do not remember in my whole life I ever willfully misrepresented anything to anybody at any time. I have never knowingly had connection with a fraudulent scheme.

[My stories were] an excuse for making pictures.

I'm like a one-woman protest machine.

What I find is that you can do almost anything or go almost anywhere, if you're not in a hurry.