Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.

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.

Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes.

As the water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it, so a wise man adapts himself to circumstances.

I try to use fiction in order to reduce the potentiality of something being true. We produce our own memories so I'm not sure of truth.

While seeking out the dead, I see nothing but the living.

At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.

The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.

The success I've achieved comes to me from God

Having a long term goal provides a catalyst for motivation at every waking moment.

Learning patience takes a lot of patience!

It is our souls which are the everlastingness of God's purpose in this earth.