Certitude is not the test of certainty.

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.

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.

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.

Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced.

A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.

The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope to live.

I'm not a stickler for truth. To me, lying in poetry is much more fun. I'm against lying in life, in principle, in any other activity except poetry.

It is the meaning of what my life has been since a youth - to try to fight for the dignity and the freedom of my own people.

When an army unit returns from service in Iraq or Afghanistan, it barely gets a breather before it begins training for its next deployment.

Perhaps the hardest thing I've learned, and still struggle with, is that I don't have to be finished in order to be whole.

Anyone that is able to put a high school film and gonzo journalism together, it's like, "Yes, please!"

There's only one man really responsible for those events - Yahya Khan. Both he and his advisers were so drunk with power and corruption they'd even forgotten the honor of the army.