"From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn."

"Serenity begins the moment you cease demanding that the external world conform. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie."

"Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay."

"Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom."

"Several tons of dynamite are set off in this picture - none of it under the right people."

"True knowledge is found not in possessing answers, but in continually asking the right questions — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region."