Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

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.

America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.

Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs.

Baseball would be a better game if more third basemen got hit in the mouth by line drivers.

When you come from nothing, you're basically just trying to get escape velocity, which means you and your family don't have to worry about being broke and that's all I ever cared about.

What good is a planet called Earth, after all, if you own no land?

I know that I'll forever be involved in ballet. This is where my life was meant to be, and I don't see myself straying completely away, ever.

Have you noticed that the cleverest people at school are often not the ones who succeed in life?

It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.

I can be very passionate but I also have a bit of a hot temper - when pushed.

Man is unique in that, unlike animals, he knows he is going to die, and unlike animals he can do something about it.