There is nothing like the dead cold hand of the past to take down our tumid egotism and lead us into the solemn flow of the life of our race.

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.

The more at ease you are in the world, the more vibrant, creative and easygoing the world in you becomes.

Bad attitudes will ruin your team.

No human creature can give orders to love.

A hungry man is an angry one.

When you get older, then you feel death not at the end of the road, but death all around you, in everything. Life is saturated with death. I feel death everywhere.

If pain is truly love, for my family I die.

I think the tougher the challenge the better.

The 'drugs or surgery only approach that modern medicine uses to treat today's diseases is archaic.

Although anything can happen when under the influence of ice water.

The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.