Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.

To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.

A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.

We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.

The Constitution does not require complete separation of church and state; it affirmatively mandates accommodation, not merely tolerance, of all religions, and forbids hostility toward any.

The right of every person "to be let alone" must be placed in the scales with the right of others to communicate.

There may be some incorrigible human beings who cannot be changed except by God's own mercy to that one person.

The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates.

Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

Doctors still retain a high degree of public confidence because they are perceived as healers. Should lawyers not be healers? Healers, not warriors? Healers, not procurers? Healers, not hired guns?

The Bible teaches that man’s chief problem is spiritual.

Artist must have an all-or-nothing attitide. Otherwise they will bite his head off and there will be no artist.

I believe that in a contest between the living and the almost living, the latter must, if necessary, give way to the will of the former.

Stay in school. Lie to your teachers, but stay in school.

Bad music is often the result of an attempt by the untrained, something that takes for granted that you're very highly trained.

The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new - and sometimes unexpected - directions will benefit you no matter your interests or aspirations.

I can't bear to be on a train without a book", she announced. " It's a form of self-defence in a way" .

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it.

Discord gives a relish for concord.