Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

The Constitution was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are in union and not division.

Law never is, but is always about to be.

The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.

The final cause of law is the welfare of society.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.

There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.

Once again, I've been thwarted by the massive difference between my vision of the successful me and the me I'm currently stuck with.

Your choices can only be limited by your mind.

Happiness is not in our circumstances but in ourselves. It is not something we see like a rainbow or feel like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are.

I've never meditated for a moment in my life. I don't know how it works. But one of the things you have to do to put yourself in the meditating mode is stop narrating yourself to yourself.

How you speak about others speaks loudest about yourself.

I'm on the third line. I'm a crasher. I know my role. I'm just trying to help. I'm not stupid enough to think I'm great out there.

Seek out positive people who have achieved the success you want to create in your own life. Remember the adage: “Never ask advice of someone with whom you wouldn’t want to trade places.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it.

For little boys are rancorous When robbed of any myth, And spiteful and cantankerous To all their kin and kith. But little girls can draw conclusions And profit from their lost illusions.

I never like to make plans. It's nice to just hang.