It is very grand to die in harness, but it is very pleasant to have the tight straps unbuckled and the heavy collar lifted from the neck and shoulders.

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.

Worrying about parents is a waste of time. It’s your life. Let’s have a martini.

Obscenity is a function of culture - a function in the mathematical sense, I mean, its value changing with that of the variables on which it depends.

Every album is just a greatest hits of whatever songs are on a pile when I go in to make a record.

For me democracy is the only way of life. The opposite is dictatorship or anarchy.

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

You could probably prove, by judicious use of logarithms and congruent triangles, that real life is a lot more like soap opera than most people will admit.

If you look at the charts every year, there may be five or ten memorable songs from each year.

Funny how internal scars never healed. They were the souvenirs of the past.

I see what keeps people young: work!

Making predictions is tough. Especially for the future.