The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of 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.

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.

I pat her on the head. "Oh, naive little Kitten. Dear, foolish girl. This cookie is worth all this and more. Sit or you will not partake.

I am saying that the recent activities by Turkey's Ministry of Agriculture, particularly the culling and communication work, is good.

We have common enemies today. It's called childhood poverty. It's called cancer. It's called AIDS. It's called Parkinson's. It's called Muscular Dystrophy.

Mother, you had me, but I never had you.

Oh, what a day-to-day business life is.

It would appear that love is dead. Or very likely in a bad way.

Male philosophers coin phrases -- 'virtue is its own reward' -- and female workers embody them.

I was created in love. For that reason nothing can express my beauty nor liberate me except love alone.

To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.

I see the energy of young people as a real force for positive change.