Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.

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.

My favourite thing is when my mother goes in the other to go and to talk to the phone, I use that moment for wisdom.

A dead man who never caused others to die seldom rates a statue.

A bred-in-the-bone Boston lady when asked why she never travelled said 'Why should I? I'm already there.'

Americans are hard working, innovative, proud people who want bad government policies and high taxes to get out of the way so they can take care of their families and pursue their dreams.

You know you've reached true success the day you become truly humble. That's the day you stop needing to prove to the world - and yourself - that you've accomplished something meaningful.

I always wanted to do a baseball book; I love baseball. The problem is that a very large part of my following is in non-baseball playing countries.

I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.

I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.

Whether it's right or wrong, fight for what you believe in.

Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different.