Men are idolaters, and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will; and if you don't make it of wood, you must make it of words.

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.

People it seems, are busy leading their lives into the future, whereas psychology, for the most part, is busy tracing them into the past.

Life, time and nature are the three greatest gifts to mankind.

For I did not want him to see, or to question me, for here contains already secrets, and my secrets are my fortune and my sanity.

It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

Every moment is not great and sometimes those are the moments in which you learn the most.

Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation.

Selfhood begins with a walking away, And love is proved in letting go.

Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasnt in the script. It was something that I came up with.

Look, demanding somebody do anything in this day and age is not going to fly.

I feel that I have something significant to say, but I cannot think what it is.