Every smallest step of modern industry depends upon a cooperation whose maintenance and regulation is the very stuff of law.

Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition.

Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.

In america, there are two tax systems: one for the informed and one for the uninformed. Both are legal

The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country.

In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understands the minds of other men and women.

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

One day, I decided I was going to write books forever.

The 20th century, the author observes, fostered the idea that fulfillment is possible on Earth.

If a politician wins in a dirty way at election, he will sat in position and works with corruption.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves.

Education is a bipartisan issue that concern all communities of color and should be first, last and always about the student learning.

Sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage

I ... started out to become a jazz pianist; in the meantime I started singing and I sang the way I felt and that's just the way it came out.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.