As long as we have to administer the law we must do so according to the law as it is. We are not here to make the law.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

A great mind must be androgynous.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

Holocaust denial is not only a falsification of history, it is an expression of anti-Semitism.

Regulations are all very well for drill, but in the hour of danger they are no more use. You have to learn to think.

Because He's near, we dont have to be anxious or feel out of control. We have peace that rises above any circumstance!

The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties.

It took me a while to realize that basketball wasn't football.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

Sexy, to me, doesn't have anything to do with beautiful.

When you're on the ice, you have very little time, you see very little, and everything happens really quick.

We yield to none in our love, admiration and respect for the Buddha-the Dharma-the Sangha. They are all ours. Their glories are ours and ours their failures.

By elevating your reading, you will improve your writing or at least tickle your thinking.