Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.

There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a president to have anything to do with criminal activities.

The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people.

Recalling an old magistrate's words to a young attorney, The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella; But chiefly on the just, because The unjust steals the just's umbrella.

Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great?

I've always been worried about people who are willing to work for nothing. Sometimes that's all you get from them, nothing.

When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes.

I believe in a wall between church and state so high that no one can climb over it.

A judicial activist is a judge who interprets the Constitution to mean what it would have said if he, instead of the Founding Fathers, had written it.

Political freedom cannot exist in any land where religion controls the state, and religious freedom cannot exist in any land where the state controls religion.

The Law of Attraction is a theory. Cosmic Ordering is a practice putting that theory to work.

people change and promises are broken

I love the concept of the romance that exists when people are broken. Like, the promise of a romance when you're at the bottom. I think that's infinitely compelling and romantic.

I want the presence of God Himself, or I don't want anything at all to do with religion... I want all that God has or I don't want any.

Three years in jail is a good corrective for three years at Harvard.

Flourishing is not a solo endeavor.

Sometimes I almost feel just like a human being.

As such, anything is always possible, even if your protagonist is a plumber. But it's the possibility, the limitless possibilities, of any fake life, that make writing about it so challenging.

Africa has been troubled for a long time - well, the world has been troubled ever since I was born.

You really have to keep people interested, at all times, until the punch comes. You can do that with a film that lasts 90 to 100 minutes. That's very difficult to do at 160 minutes.