Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.

The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.

I was brought up to believe that Scotch whisky would need a tax preference to survive in competition with Kentucky bourbon.

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion.

Among religions in this country which do not teach what would generally be considered a belief in the existence of God are Buddhism, Taoism, Ethical Culture, Secular Humanism and others.

There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has.

Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have, or the views they express, or the words they speak or write.

The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional.

An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment.

When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.

The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.

Though you are as a drop in the ocean, without you, the universe would be empty.

No one has ever held me so tightly. It's a shock to matter this much. It isn't like arms are around me, it's more like a house, as if he has made a house around me. As he did around Tommy.

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

Look on the happy side, think of the good things. Hadn't it been clever? Yes, it had.

Conquer or be conquered.

Career success means making enough money to lead the kind of life you would like to lead as a practicing Buddhist.

Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.

Infants manners are moulded more by the example of Parents, then by stars at their nativities.

Painting isn't just pretty or pleasant; it is something that helps you to stand alone and face yourself.

I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.