A timid question will always receive a confident answer.

The law of England is a very strange one it cannot compel anyone to tell the truth. . . . But what the law can do is to give you seven years for not telling the truth.

Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Love's not only blind but deaf.

When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.

We're ready for a real black President - someone like Jay-Z. Obama's fine, just not all black. He's our gateway Negro.

I don't think I've mastered anything. I'm still wrestling with the same frustrations, the same issues, the same problems as I always did. That's what life is like.

If you have the ability to work with people smarter than you, always try to be the least smartest person in the room and surround yourself with talent, because iron sharpens iron.

The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth.

In this court the parties changed positions as nimbly as if dancing a quadrille.

A new model of heroic capitalism based on principle-driven, free-market entrepreneurship deserves a central place in business-ethics thought and action.