Life, not the parson, teaches conduct.

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.

Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.

Since we all know for a fact that we're all going to die, why don't we all treat each other like we could lose each other at any minute?

Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth century invention.

As followers of natural science we know nothing of any relation between thoughts and the brain, except as a gross correlation in time and space.

I've always been fascinated by everything with wings.

"I don't know whether you are a saint or a fool" said my lawyer. I replied "Is there a difference?"

We're asking schools to look at kids as partners in education.

Any talented decadent can make unreality believable. To make reality convincing is another matter, a matter for only the greatest masters.

I love Abby Lee Miller. Honestly, if there's such a thing as past lives, I was definitely a dancer.

The thinking man always finds himself in a gigantic orphanage in which people are continually proving to him that he has no parents.