I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.

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.

For any created being, autonomy is lunacy. Freedom involves trust and obedience inside a relationship of love.

I just want to find some inner peace, and I think I'm getting there, slowly but surely.

Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization.

The principles you live by create the world you live in; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world.

Inventing is the resolution of technical contradictions.

You realize mortality is everywhere.

Sometimes you can tell what something is by what is isn't.

I don't have a rock voice. I have to force it. I am like an opera singer.

"It's gonna be okay," I said. It was the first time in a long time that I believed it. "It will."