The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.

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.

Inspiration is the crèche of your brainchildren. If you don’t feed them, they will die, and never come back. So someone please think about the children!

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

My first proper kiss was from Cara Shucksmith when I was 13 or 14 at her birthday party.

Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation.

It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.

Ye canna give up hope when that is all ye have.

Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme.

Even the way the kids react with media today is so completely different than what most movies have. We just wanted to make a movie that challenged them.

I think that my God-given physical attributes, big hands, and big feet, the way that I'm built, proportion-wise, just made basketball the most inviting sport for me to play.

There is a great volcano sleeping in every laziness!