"I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived"
"Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future"
"Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust"
"Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer"
"I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn"
"Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth"
"Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children"
"Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks"
"It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living"
"The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men"
"People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'"
"Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left"
"I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!"
"Old age is fifteen years older than I am"
"If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end"
"Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts"
"When in doubt, do it"
"We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing"
"Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light"
"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening"
"To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor"
"To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old"
"To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences"
"Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing"
"This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice"
"The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving"
"The Amen of nature is always a flower"
"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books"
