The only condition of peace in this world is to have no ideas, or, at least not to express them.

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.

Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.

To write you dreams of fantasy, is to create fantasy in another's dreams.

Nothing of worthy or weight can be achieved with half a mind with a faint heart and with a lame endeavor.

A kitten is the delight of a household. All day long, comedy is played by an incomparable actor.

We cannot fight communism all over the world, and I think we should have learned that lesson by now.

I appear topless as a way of holding on to my Nilotic culture, and I also do it to taunt those Africans who are ashamed of our original cultural beliefs.

A gift that cannot be given away ceases to be a gift. The spirit of a gift is kept alive by its constant donation.

The music of lovers is not generally appreciated by lovers of music.

Poems tend to have instructions for how to read them embedded in their language.

Whole generations have forgotten history.