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.

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.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

Only the shallow know themselves.

Some folks goes right under when trouble comes, but I carry mine fur an' easy.

My son is 21. He'll be 22 if I let him.

The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason.

Because I have been lonely, I value love.

If I could keep a single moment for all time, that would be the one. I became the very air; I was full of stars.

There is only one search: wandering... no dogma and no heresy.

No man can be held throughout the day by what happens throughout the night.

I have nothing bad to say about my job. I love the public, I love to talk, get to know people, everything.