Systems die instincts remain.

All limitations are self-imposed.

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

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.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins.

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

If you swim with sharks, make sure you have the appetite of a whale.

. . .you sounded frustrated and pissed off and amazingly happy

How could he possibly bow deeply enough to honor a thousand-year-old samurai queen?

There is something democratic about grass-roots, widespread money support. There is something anti-democratic about one person propping up a candidate who can't make it.

Nature is neither reasonable nor just. Nature is exact.

Ultimately we must concern ourselves with pulling out by its roots the decadence that controls our culture, the profit motive that controls our culture.

Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.

I think there's an element where people get very comfortable in their ghetto. Which is fair enough.

[My kitten] is dressed in a tortoise-shell suit, and I know you will delight in her.

Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.