The author explains that some find recourse from injustice in literature and art but that these tend to deepen sensitivity to injustice rather than dull it.

He was one of those young men who possess an impressive store of facts, but no truths.

If virtue does not equal powers, powers will be misused.

It was a little thing, but on top of the other little things, it broke something in me.

Your blanks have been filled in far differently from those of a child grown up in the filth and poverty

In the context of today, this WAS heroism.

We fill too many gutters while we argue unimportant points and confuse issues.

A law is not good merely because the legislature wills it, but the legislature has the mortal duty to will only that which is good.

He showed me the lowest. I had to surmise the highest.

All the courtesies in the world do not cover up the one vital and massive discourtesy.

If the judgement makes the law and not the law directs the judgement, it is impossible there should be such a thing as an illegal judgement given.

Learning is a matter of gathering knowledge

If you just want to do something because it is a customary new year resolution, then soon enough the year will get a bit older, and the strength of your decision will also begin to wear off.

I have a new nickname for Dottie. She's now the Crazy Whisperer.

Given Loughner's obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault & Derrida deserve some fault here, too.

Only faith and restraint against the tyrant damns the saint.

On the back benches, you can have your say but no power to do anything.

Giving to other people makes me feel alive. Not my car or my house. Not what I look like in the mirror. When I give my time, when I can make someone smile after they were feeling sad.

What son would not bring his mother back to life and would not bring her into paradise after her death if he could?

Where love is thick, faults are thin. If you really love someone, then it is difficult to find fault with him. His faults seem negligible, for love means oneness.

If you want to cut down a tree, it is no use to climb into its branches.