It is the worst oppression, that is done by colour of justice

The gladsome light of jurisprudence.

You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.

One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.

The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.

Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.

Reason is the life of the law.

The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.

Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.

He is not cheated who knows he is being cheated.

The law of the realm cannot be changed but by Parliament.

They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
 I have good intentions, but when a match strikes, fire follows.

...what else would a poet priest do on an endless night, but write of love?...

I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.

I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.

People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.

Judges don't age. Time decorates them.

Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall.

I open myself genuinely to all people by being willing to fully communicate my deepest feelings, since hiding in any degree keep me stuck in my illusion of separateness from other people.

If I can do it, you can do it.

The idea of God is the type and foundation of the principle of authority and absolutism, which it is our task to destroy or at least to subordinate wherever it manifests itself.