To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists.

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.

Living honestly is a prerequisite for a clear conscience.

Serious people make a decision to read your fully story before they write you off. Don't worry about those who don't have time to know you.

So when the crisis is upon you remember that God like a trainer of wrestlers has matched you with a tough and stalwart antagonist... that you may prove a victor at the Great Games.

Holding a tear back makes them drain upward, higher and higher, until one day your head just explodes and you're left with a stub of a neck and nothing more.

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

Life to me is a series of false limits and my challenge as an athlete is to explore those limits

If you don't have that trust in the backbone of the project, you may not know what you're making.

Well, it'll always be disco/electro-pop. That's what I first wanted to do when I started out as a musician in 1977. It's only ever been dance-pop that I've wanted to do.

No man fails who does his best.

Fight against something and you focus on the thing you hate. Fight for something and you focus on the thing you love.