The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience.

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.

Break the spine of one of my books and I break yours.

Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee.

If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine.

Average band with a great drummer sounds great, great band with an average drummer sounds average.

When you question what you believe, you leave the world, really, and what the world believes. It puts you in a very interesting position.

Nevertheless, the mode, the justification, and all the games involved in this war were dishonest.

One's neighbor is always the enemy. That is the nature of things.

We should impart our courage and not our despair.

What North Europe thinks of as its history is actually quite provincial and of limited interest. Different sorts of Christian killing each other, and that's about it.