The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science.

You are as welcome as the flowers in May.

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it.

Every tub must stand upon its bottom.

Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.

The instinct of interest is the universal instinct of mankind.

To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it.

Rereading parts of your novel while writing is like doubling back at rerunning parts of a marathon midrace.

Life is beautiful, though the circumstances and situations around us may not say so, but life is certainly beautiful

In attitude, faith is "restful", but in action, it is "powerful". Praying in tongues has both a restful and powerful effect upon our lives because it is an active expression of our faith.

My friends and I were all deathly afraid of our fathers, which was right and proper and even biblically ordained. Fathers were angry; it was their job.

Whatever you do has to be commercial and it can't be too distracting - it has to be background music, basically.

God help me, I'm just not that bright.

The most beautiful garden is always the one that we have made it with our own efforts!

Breath is aligned with both body and mind and it alone can bring them together.

The human person is the sum total of a 15 billion year chain of unbroken evolution now thinking about itself