The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eyes for two hours and not hear a damned word he says.

Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.

The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will.

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is.

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well

A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law.

A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.

What are the maxims of Democracy? A strict observance of justice and public faith, and a steady adherence to virtue.

A constitution is framed for ages to come, and is designed to approach immortality as nearly as human institutions can approach it.

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.

The secret of winning in any game of life is love.

To see anything other than ‘as it is’ - that is called the world.

Human beings are by nature political animals

Love consists in this that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

What good is a reputation not put to good use.

Every song is something that I've been through or an emotion I've felt - like falling in love or heartbreak.

You always project on the outside how you feel on the inside.

I don't want to say I'm never going to direct again, but directing's hard work.

Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.

Do not spend your time thinking about the world or your relationships to individuals. These are all impermanent. They have only to do with the body.