Knowledge is power as well as fame.

Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

I will look, your Honor, and endeavor to find a precedent, if you require it; though it would seem to be a pity that the Court should lose the honor of being the first to establish so just a rule.

A book is the only immortality.

There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave magistrates which it had selected, and by equal laws which it had framed.

The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.

Anything more low, obscene, feculent, the manifold heaving's of history have not cast up. We shall come to the worship of onions, cats and things vermiculite.

We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union.

Even poison has an expiry date.

Big cities can have big hearts.

If you find a path with no obstacles, it likely leads nowhere.

For me, if I get up and don't meditate and don't eat something before having caffeine, I go from 0 to 10 on the stress scale.

My goal in life is to give to the world what I was lucky to receive: the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance.

If you want to know what you think of yourself, then ask yourself what you think of others and you will find the answer.

The fact that - I mean, these are things to be talked about. You can't do anything without educating the public, right? And that's a slow work.

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

The greatest tragedy of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is that everyone knows how it will end. We will divide up the region.

A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.