Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

...intricate stone carvings and wood trim gave the law school an almost medieval feel. You'd even sometimes hear that we went to HLS (Hogwarts Law School).

Anything that elicits an immediate nod of recognition has only reconfirmed a prejudice.

I never want to produce anything that a family could not enjoy together. I never want to create art that would embarrass my own children later.

I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.

Were I forced to describe this woman in one word, that word would be...herpes.

In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility.

Politics is that rare sport where the amateur contest is actually more interesting than the professional.

Being open to the concept that globalisation is only 10-20% complete leaves room for some expectation that there might be more gains to be achieved from further integration.

Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious; it'll make you bugnutty.

I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.