Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

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.

Thank you to all for your prayers and good wishes. It gave me the strength to persevere and warmed my heart.

To love all ages yield surrender; But to the young it's raptures bring A blessing bountiful and tender- As storms refresh the fields of spring.

To my mind the most poignant mystical exhoration ever written is "Be still and know that I am God."

I do believe that painting can change the world.

Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude.

It is a good thing to be laughed at. It is better than to be ignored.

... a man is a very important thing-maybe more important than a star.

Hardship brings people closer together if you share it.

My big places to shop are Wal-Mart and Target - seriously. That is where half of my stuff comes from now.

I have lived a thousand lives lost within the pages of a book.