If Congress were to censure, fine or otherwise try to punish a president, it would dramatically alter the balance of power between the branches.

Since its inception, our Nation has stood on the foundations of compassion and justice.

It is my mission to ensure that HIV-positive children and children with AIDS are no longer overlooked and that they begin receiving the treatment and care they deserve.

Yeah, look, I think what we have with the social media and the digital media, and all the telecommunications we have today is a big megaphone, amplification.

On every journey you take, you are met with options. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. These are the decisions that shape your life.

Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy.

I find it personally distracting when kids are constantly texting, but they can be texting something that is just benign and just fine.

The entertainment industry is encouraging young people to defy and deceive their parents.

This is a time for a national conversation. A conversation about the document that binds us as a nation and a people. That document, of course, is the Constitution.

To add to the confusion, some of the court's decisions involved multiple concurrences and dissents, making it hard even for lawyers and judges to figure out what the law is and why.

Judges are not members of Congress, they're not state legislators, governors, nor presidents. Their job is not to pass laws, implement regulations, nor to make policy.

The only good understanding is to obey the God's commandment.

One way or another, we’re all prisoners.

That which wounds, shall heal.

Woman can best refind herself by losing herself in some kind of creative activity of her own.

What nature does blindly, slowly and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly. As it lies within his power, so it becomes his duty to work in that direction.

Short stories and some short novels are close to poetry--with the fewest words they capture the essence of a situation, of a human being. It's like trying to pin down the eternal moment.

Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.

Any use of a human being in which less is demanded of him and less is attributed to him than his full status is a degradation and a waste.

I journey to the east, where I have been told, there are men who have taught death some manners.

As a painter, taking photos is a form of shorthand - note-taking.