We must think things not words or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand if we are to keep to the real and the true.

All limitations are self-imposed.

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

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.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins.

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

The horror had begun.

As a general thing people marry most happily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age when they do not really know what their own kind is.

I never became primarily a musician! I've always been a wanderer and I'm always bored.

I am glad there are things in the Bible I do not understand. If I could take that book up and read it as I would any other book, I might think I could write a book like that.

Television is a triumph of equipment over people, and the minds that control it are so small that you could put them in a gnat's navel with room left over for two caraway seeds and an agent's heart.

What I try to do is read stuff that won't deal with the dangerous dark things I hope I am writing about.

Terrorism is really the only existential threat to America as we know it - as a free country that plays a leading role in the world.

If a kid ever realized what was involved in factory farming, they would never touch meat again.

He who says he never needs help, most does.

To tackle the big and relevant issues of the day with bold and innovative ideas is without question the most rewarding way to serve.