Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.

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.

This letter is written on the skin of one of the water sprites who drowned your parents.''Ick!' I cried, and dropped the letter on the kitchen table.

I know gray areas too well. I write for silent audiences.

What I do know is that there are two kinds of pain in this life: risk and regret. I'd rather live with the first than the second.

Do you know at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity if you so desire?

I don't want to appeal to everybody. [After all] everybody doesn't appeal to me.

If you get in a battle with someone, you don't get their power if you win. Power is something that you have to acquire yourself, through self-inquiry and the practice of meditation.

We must remind ourselves that an assault on any one of our liberties and freedoms is an assault on all.

I hope that something better comes along.

It is necessary to broaden the opportunities for a stronger presence of women in the church.

Restraint? Why are you so concerned with saving their lives? The whole idea is to kill the bastards. At the end of the war if there are two Americans and one Russian left alive, we win.