Life is action and passion therefore it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

All limitations are self-imposed.

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

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.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins.

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

Books have long been instruments of the divinatory arts.

... all good things beyond sleep come precisely because we defy gravity while we live.

Keep the environment clean and the waters clear as crystal.

it's my responsibility to cultivate the man in my son. I can't be passive about that.

Doing is never enough if you neglect Being.

Born out of concern for all beings.

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

Life's better now. I wouldn't do it all over again, though. It's funny how life works. Maybe it was meant to happen for many reasons, because my life in many ways richer.

One of my school friends' parents owned a minigolf course, and a bunch of us kids would play there all day in the summer. Two-under deuces was a good score.

The secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.