The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

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.

The best teaching is often both an intellectual creation and a performing art.

I believe that the ‘love of your life’ is just a person that you chose. You choose them because you believe that they’re it.

I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration of Independence] intended to include all men.

For everyone who thought I couldn’t do it… for everyone who thought I shouldn’t do it… for everyone who said, ‘It’s impossible’… see you at the finish line!

What is so brilliant about the gadgets is their simplicity.

No evil is so worse than worst you fall in hate with love.

Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.

My longest love affair: with a book.

There is much depressing evidence that the religious voice is required to stay out of the public square only when it is pressed in a conservative cause.

Things will get better - despite our efforts to improve them.