To an imagination of any scope the most far reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas

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.

If love isn't there, nothing will grow. If it is, there is always hope and it will win in the end. Love is vital and sacrosanct.

Don't strive for perfection, just do your best. Everything in life is ever revolving to be perfect.

For the first time in the history of the world every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals from the moment of conception until death.

I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be 'the Union as it was'.

It's sort of an action flick. You can't be that funny trying to steal diamonds.

Happiness is when there is no hunger or want at all, when we're completely free of all hunger, desire, and want.

We're in one of the biggest tech bubbles we've ever had.

You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been.

We sin because we see sin as a bargain. We unconsciously calculate that it’s worth it, that it pays.

It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.