Where men cannot freely convey their thoughts to one another, no other liberty is secure.

Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality.

We cannot swing up a rope which is attached only to our own belt.

Mr. Rihani, we met once a thousand years ago and we may not meet again for another thousand years.

And indeed, no man has found his religion until he has found that for which he must sell his goods and his life.

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished; the others can only be hurt.

Art is life, plus caprice.

Principle I: Legal rights are presumptive rights.

Without good-will, no man has any presumptive right, except the right or opportunity to change his will, so long as there is hope of it.

Principle III: Presumptive rights are the conditions under which individual powers normally develop.

No religion is a true religion that does not make men tingle to their finger tips with a sense of infinite hazard.

The bliss e'en of a moment still is bliss.

My mom was really cool.

Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with.

Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries - eventually - reflect popular choices.

African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.

All my friends are so small town.

I consider that I understand an equation when I can predict the properties of its solutions, without actually solving it.

It takes knowledge to know something. It takes guts to do what you know.

Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody!

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.