Research and writing are lonely occupations. It is easy to become discouraged in solitary confinement.

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.

Her blonde tresses now lay unbound and flowing in comely waves down her back, like pale serpents against the blue sea of her costume.

Nature, not human activity, rules the climate.

I believe in God. When everything collapses, we grip the last hold, we look from the secure haven how the godless society of the old, holy Europe falls apart. May the game begin.

Desire can blind us to the hazards of our enterprises.

First of all, you needed a budget to do the video. The record companies would pick and choose who got videos.

You don't have a right to a house, you don't have a right to a job, you don't have a right to medical care.

Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz.

The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free.

Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano, with its many strings.

Boys laugh at what they put girls through - but they won't be laughing when - they're wiping tears off their daughters face for the same reason.