To know is not less than to feel.

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.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

When you go to home plate with a lot of confidence, you feel that you can hit any pitch.

People in the land of LaLa look like expensive wax fruit. And they work hard to achieve that look.

Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.

When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.

If relationships matter most then [at the end of our lives], shouldn't they matter most now?

But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.

The poem is not a physical body. It's a textual body that has life only insofar as it can act symbolically. It cannot physically act.

It will be harder because they are going to want revenge, they need revenge.

I get to learn and teach something new everyday.