Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

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.

Pray daily.

A turmoil of winds rushed around him, spiraling up in to the air: he was thinking.

Who is an elected government in a constitutional democracy to decide it will not tolerate dissent

Can I try something?" I said. "If you dont' like it, I'll stop.

Together we will be unstoppable.

The government is asleep - there is a big administrative corruption everywhere in its institutions

Blue Boy proves that if you don't quite fit in, then you might as well stand out with as much wit, color and audacity as you can muster.

Like a lovely vase that someone has smashed. Only luck and skill can put it back together the way it was before.

Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion.