[No one will be able to] deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the tides.

To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.

A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.

We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.

The Constitution does not require complete separation of church and state; it affirmatively mandates accommodation, not merely tolerance, of all religions, and forbids hostility toward any.

The right of every person "to be let alone" must be placed in the scales with the right of others to communicate.

There may be some incorrigible human beings who cannot be changed except by God's own mercy to that one person.

The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates.

Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.

Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

This was the start of a period that blurs as I try to recall it. Incidents seem to cascade and merge. Events become feelings, fellings become events. Head and heart are contrary historians.

I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.

The truth was always the truth, but until I knew the truth for myself, I couldn't be free.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Rock 'n roll was born in the South, man. It's like saying rock-rock.

Life is a choice... it's a choice to be successful.

I'm lonely and I'm still kind of searching for someone I can have a real connection with.

A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop.

If you want a team of smart, creative people to do extraordinary things, don't put them in a drab, ordinary space.

I grew up, as reported, in a large family of Catholics without even a decent ration of tentativeness among the lot of us about our religious faith.