Integrity is the key to understanding legal practice. Law's empire is defined by attitude, not territory or power or process.

Moral principle is the foundation of law.

We write a subscript to our mortality. We make our lives tiny diamonds in the cosmic sands.

What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality.

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.

Why not believe in miracles, create them, invite them for dinner, and offer them a place to stay every single day? Just because we have not doesn’t mean we cannot.

I never found anyone who was good enough, who I could trust enough.

And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul, appear.

No poetic phantasy but a biological reality, a fact: I am an entity like bird, insect, plant or sea-plant cell; I live; I am alive.

But what could I lose by continuing that had not already been lost?

I am prepared to accept from others their own version of reality. I think it is a basic freedom really, to create one's own reality from whatever truths are available.

Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.

I don't think people understand when you say you are making a micro-budget film that you are getting paid no money.

I feel unbelievably fortunate. How many people get to do what they always wanted to do and do well with it and continue to be surprised and see amazing places and meet amazing people?