The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.

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.

President Ford used humor a great deal.

In the history of the nation, there has never been a political party so ridiculous as today's Democrats. It's as if all the brain-damaged people in America got together and formed a voting bloc.

Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics.

I think it's important for all culturally literate people to understand the technological substrate of new developments.

Pleasure can be used to enslave a people just as effectively as pain.

Paradise is here or nowhere: you must take your joy with you or you will never find it.

Now that Marilyn Monroe is kosher, Arthur Miller can eat her.

The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it.

When I was about 10 I ran away to see my father. He couldn't have cared less. He just took me back as soon as he could.