The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.

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 should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind, but that the middle station had the fewest disasters, ...

A secret society within a secret society.

Many small make a great.

Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself and become a new person.

Everybody is headed for the same place, and they are headed on the same train, and under the same engineer.

But I am very grateful for my success, and with success, of course, comes a whole lot of celebrity.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

Usually the male control and domination that tends to be in our genes gets around a powerful woman who has the ability to make choices different from guys, it throws you off and you get frustrated.

I've been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and strong and active participants in their destiny.

Never take your position for granted and never let any favors you receive go to your head.