Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

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.

Zeb was kindergarten teacher--a good one. I always thought it was because he was the same emotional age as his students.

But a small part of him also knew that the reason he'd never ventured anywhere was because of the worry that the reality of the world wouldn't match up to his dreams.

Even moderation ought not to be practised to excess.

Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in women.

But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair.

Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.

Women still get angry at me. I mean, men go after me sometimes, but most of the bad responses come from women.

Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt.

Fidelity is a matter of perception; nobody is unfaithful to the sea or to mountains or to death: once recognized they fill the heart.

Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know that in skilled hands it is fearsome.