I've thought of publishing a book of my hate mail, but I don't own the rights to the letters.

Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice and they are also the most protected.

The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.

The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.

Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally.

In the real world in which we live, you always have to choose between evils. And in choosing between evils, you have to have moral criteria for how to make those choices.

There are many levels of truth.

It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.

I was critical of race-based affirmative action early on in my career and I've changed my mind. And I've publicly acknowledged that I was wrong.

There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life.

Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians.

On a mental level, kindness and compassion give rise to lasting joy.

You are good in countless ways, and you are not evil when you are not good, you are only loitering and sluggard.

...you need to assess what you love right now and what is authntic to your way of living in this season of life.

As convenient as that would be to make it easier to communicate with more prolific musicians, I don't want to think of music like a math equation.

Liberated souls are a rare commodity in this world. They are no better; it's just you, a little later, in the next act or in the next play.

After playing so many songs in churches for eight or nine years, I've learned what songs people react to. Then I just had fun with the arrangements. That's how this album came together.

You. I've spent my life waiting for you.' -Keenan

Art, along with all work is the ordering of creation toward the intention of the creator.

She was so ugly that I took her to a dog show and she won first prize.

Our survival as a human community may depend as much upon our nurture of love in infancy and childhood as upon the protection of our society from external threats.