Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.
The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.
Travelling the railways of Europe with a century-old guidebook can be disconcerting: fares, food, and drink seem shockingly expensive compared with what they were; trains and paddle-steamers run to unexpected timetables (assuming they're still running at all); and not only states but whole empires have been wiped from the map.
Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.
Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.
A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
The number of known human fossils only increases slowly. But the manner of regarding and assessing them is capable of progressing rapidly, as indeed it does. In the absence of any absolutely sensational discovery in prehistory, there is an up-to-date and scientific manner of understanding man, which is solidly based on palaeontology.
I'm a very discriminating shoe shopper. I only look for something special. In fact, I don't think I've ever bought two pairs at the same time.
Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
As a nation we should commit ourselves not only to the fight against terrorism, but to economic justice, defeat of the AIDS epidemic and vestiges of discriminatory policies of all kinds.
Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.
A judge sworn to decide impartially can offer no forecasts, no hints, for that would show not only disregard for the specifics of the particular case, it would display disdain for the entire judicial process.
I only have disdain for New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He raised taxes and has increased regulations. What else is new? He's a bully who wants to micro-manage people's lives by mandate, not persuasion.
The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.
Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest.
American politicians who dwell on American exceptionalism only dishonor us by suggesting we play dumb to our past.
It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
