Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization.

Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization. We must put question marks along many of our inherited legal dogmas, since they are dangerously out of line with social facts.

Justice is what the judge ate for breakfast.

Only a very foolish lawyer will dare guess the outcome of a jury trial.

Any treatment of an illness that does not also minister to the human spirit is grossly deficient.

The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless.

The inexpressible is the only thing that is worthwhile.

To say I removes a false impression of a Jovian aloofness.

If you do not need something that it is still useful, give it to someone who will appreciate it before you douse it in lighter fluid in hopes Santa Odin will put a new one under your Yule tree.

I have ideas written down some places, but usually I can't find them. I'm not very organized.

I'm a father of four so whenever I'm not working my kids have their different sports, or plays, or school performances, so I don't do a whole lot of other stuff besides being a dad.

The thing that makes me feel powerful is when I make a decision about something and I make it happen.

Your worldview has to have the same shape that reality does.

Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.

I tell you what, I was so shocked because I didn't think the ball had enough to get out. It's an absolutely incredible feeling. I can honestly say I did it.

I have been attacked by media critics and just critics of my own for years. And that, unfortunately, is part of the job in 2016 America. I was used to that. And I've developed a thick skin.

There is no sin worse in life than being boring and nothing worse than letting other people tell you what to do.

She understood his eyes, colder than winter's heart. A man who knew he was dead and couldn't make himself care; you are spared that. Mashiara. His lost love.