We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.

Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

I will look, your Honor, and endeavor to find a precedent, if you require it; though it would seem to be a pity that the Court should lose the honor of being the first to establish so just a rule.

A book is the only immortality.

There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave magistrates which it had selected, and by equal laws which it had framed.

The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

Anything more low, obscene, feculent, the manifold heaving's of history have not cast up. We shall come to the worship of onions, cats and things vermiculite.

We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union.

Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.

When the rose opens its heart, you will smell the fragrance of its soul.

Many of us do not continue to grow spiritually because we prefer to choose on the basis of our rights, instead of relying on God to make the choice for us.

I love all types of music myself.

It would have been a hard year if I'd spent it berating myself for not working on the book.

There is nothing in itself which is wrong or evil not even murder.

If you took away the color of Barack Obama's skin, nobody right now would be paying him any attention.

In order to have a real relationship with our creativity, we must take the time and care to cultivate it.

I used to consider myself as great as a pyramid, and now I realize that I am only a shadow that passes.

Become one with eternity. Become part of your environment. Take off your clothes. Forget yourself. Make love. Self-destruction is the only way to peace.