To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it, and thus to know anything you must know all.

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 might do 'X Factor' next year. It's looking good that I won't get the sack at Christmas.

One half was sad because I had damaged my reputation. The other half was happy because I had damaged my reputation.

Hillary Clinton has experience, but it's bad experience.

Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder.

But for me if I'm gonna read about something I'd rather read a pamphlet or the instructions to a synthesizer than a book on Buddhism.

I want to do for you what the spring does for the cherry trees

Those who love not their fellow-beings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave.

I have a total responsibility to the reader. The reader has to trust me and never feel betrayed.

If you constantly dwell on the past that's where you end up living.

I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.