The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

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.

When Hope disappears ~ Faith steps in...

Believe in your dreams. Your passion will show you the way

Find 100 reasons to laugh. You are bound to feel better, you will cope with problems more effectively and people will enjoy being around you. Besides unhappiness, what do you have to lose?

I liked to be off by myself, away from the eyes of adults who always had some task or errand to demand of an unoccupied child.

I needed to be alone for whatever would happen. I knew that something would as certainly as if this were a last chapter.

I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.

It is hard to keep a straight face during comedy scenes. It's considered really bad form to laugh at someone else because you can ruin their best take. But sometimes it's very hard not to.

For a lot of people, if they're lucky, it begins with somebody who recognizes something in them.

If you want to cure the world, don't emanate fear - emanate love.

Our history doesn't look at our own violence, the violence in our own past, and we go out and repeat it someplace else.