In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.

It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.

What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?

A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless.

If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?

Devout Christians are destined to be regarded as fools in modern society. We are fools for Christ's sake. We must pray for courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world.

Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize.

I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.

For in order for capitalism to work -- in order for it to produce a good and a stable society -- the traditional Christian virtues are essential.

In the eyes of government we are just one race here. It is American.

One can be sophisticated and believe in God. Reason and intellect are not to be laid aside where matters of religion are concerned.

You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.

Could Hamlet have been written bya committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? Could the NewTestament have been composed as a conference report?

Throughout his life the memory of that happy day stayed locked secretly in (his) heart.

A garden must be looked unto and dressed as the body.

Never give up on what you really want to do

Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.

The first drugs I ever took, I was still at art school, with the group - we all took it together - was Benzedrine from the inside of an inhaler.

You gotta take care of yourself; you cant do anything in excess.

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.

Dreams are vague and far away. Goals are tangible and achievable.