The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes; one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad and high an aim does not paralyze your effort and clog your springs of action.

Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition.

Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.

In america, there are two tax systems: one for the informed and one for the uninformed. Both are legal

The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country.

In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understands the minds of other men and women.

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

There is no denying that there is evil in this world but the light will always conquer the darkness.

You cannot step into the same river twice

Since the day I decided to become sober and a mother, I've been trying to become who I am supposed to be.

Live the way life does, love the way they does

In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.

What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page.

Booze is the most outrageous of drugs which is why I chose it.

It's very difficult to be original.

Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness.

Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself are much condemned to have an itching palm.