Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.

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.

I may not like everyone but love all. No one is worthy of occupying my heart. You scored a point, so what? Congratulations. You're forgiven!

It's Halloween, you can tell everyone you're going as your favorite Steampunck character.""I don't even know what that is!""Because your generation has no taste in speculative science fiction.

Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.

I would like go to Palestine and interview people there about what their lives are like; same thing in Iran.

Be who you are, nothing more... nothing less.

I believe it is important for the university to always remember its roots.

Don't take yourself so personally.

Perhaps the greatest challenge has been trying to keep my time to myself and my private life private in order to do my job. Everything that is most mine belongs to everyone now.

How well you tell your story determines how well your customers tell your story.

Apparently, in the Avesta classical period no one would have dreamed of having a spiritual experience without resort to drugs.