"Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere."

"To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it."

"The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion."

"The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits."

"As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly."

"A dead thing goes with the stream. Only a living thing can go against it."

"No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time."

"I don't like being called Elvis The Pelvis. That's gotta be one of the most childish expressions I've ever heard coming from an adult."

"If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those decisions, perhaps better decisions will result."

"I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them."

"There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity."

"There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish."