Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

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.

Death is only final when you know you're not going to see them again!

While you are waiting to die, you have to live.

Disheartened, enraptured, and strangely lightheaded, Grady emerged from the trees and walked back through town to the island bridge, his ankles and hands marked up with thorn scratches.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

I'M A HOPELESS ROMANTIC

They will avoid ... those Overgrown Military establishements which ... are ... particularly hostile to Republican liberty.

One parody is worth a thousand polemics.

Trying to connect to the moment, that move, that breath - this is what I have been striving for; finding the oneness that can exist with all the things around and inside me.

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.

I was at sea the other day and loads of meat floated past. It was a bit choppy.