Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered.

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.

Everyone believes very easily whatever he fears or desires.

I devoured books like a person taking vitamins, afraid that otherwise I would remain this gelatinous narcissist, with no possibility of ever becoming thoughtful, of ever being taken seriously.

How can you do the moonwalk and ask a woman to dance? Hey baby lets dance... cya later!

Only the Republican Party cares about the issues that concern me.

What I do with the story itself varies of course, but what I want to do is to present the world so that the reader can access it without tripping over the details.

Art...must do something more than give pleasure: it should relate to our own life so as to increase our energy of spirit.

It's the choosing that's important, isn't it?

If you want something bad enough the whole world conspires to help you get it.

I have maintained that the people of India are ahead of their governments. The people of India are at least 10 to 15 years ahead of their governments.