This is a court of law, not a court of justice.

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.

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 character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Don’t look for leadership just at the top of the tree. Listen to leadership wherever it is expressed.

She said one thing and I said another and the next thing I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life in the middle of that conversation.

We don't do laundry because that requires a lot of water, and water's at a premium up here. Plus, it'd be pretty complicated, I think, to make a space washer, although I guess you could do it.

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Sometimes I think, not so much am I a pianist, but a vampire. All my life I have lived off the blood of Chopin.

Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.

I don't think it's that strange that a show has sort of a bumpy beginning. It's just part and parcel of the process.

Then watch out. I warn you!" "That is very considerate of you," said Chrestomanci. "I like to be warned.

How rare that an artist should make something which forces us to think, and encourages us to stop and think, to question why we behave the way we do.

My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at the close of his life to Christ.