Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal.

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.

In heaven an angel is no one in particular.

When humanity's deafness to simple common sense is allowed to reign, the implications for the world can only be catastrophic.

I have a small child, so the idea of getting up at 3 a.m. to train before a day of shooting... I just don't have it in me, although I have so much respect for people who do.

I think you always need to try your best, but at the same time you can only do what you can do. Don't beat yourself up about it.

The opposite of a glance... is a glimpse: because in a glance, we see only for a second, and in a glimpse, the object shows itself only for a second.

Always late: thus I make you the prisoner of my freedom.

I always worked very hard against the unconstitutional individual mandate in health care. I didn't praise it.

A lot of guys like to go to the beach and bring a crowd, but not me. I like to be alone and out there with a couple of pelicans.

There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity.

Things you believe are baggage in your life.