The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted.

A free press stands as one of the great interpreters between the government and the people. To allow it to be fettered is to fetter ourselves.

If the provisions of the Constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned.

A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place - like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard.

They say the average person can't make a living in art... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's what I have to do.

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

I got stuck up a tree when I was about seven, and my dad had to come and get the ladder to get me down. I loved to climb all the way up to the top. I must have been a koala in my past life.

In mathematics our role is more that of servant than master.

Thank you... 'Real Housewives of Atlanta,' for demonstrating a universal truth: Idiots like me will always watch idiots like you fight on TV. You will forever be in my TiVo.

I don't know how to let you go/ You are so deep down in my soul.

Wherever there is a single solution, that solution must always achieve some kind of maximum.

Companies hire a lot during boom times because they're trying to adequately accelerate into the future.

Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .