I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame general propositions and that no general proposition is worth a damn.

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.

When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.

Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.

Some are weatherwise, some are otherwise.

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

I feel like a good director provokes you to ask questions about your character, but doesn't answer them for you.

Britney Spears told an interviewer if she weren't famous, she would be a teacher. So thank God she's famous.

We have a mantra: don't be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for our customers, for everyone. So I think if we were known for that, it would be a wonderful thing.

If you work with amazing actors, you've got a master class happening in front of you. But [also] it's just acting at the end of the day.

Trains, cars and every kind of vehicles do not only carry people, but they also carry people's heavy thoughts and hidden hopelessnesses.

Compile your to-do list for tomorrow no later than this evening.