The law is not a 'light' for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.

When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water.

It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!

The man who tells lies hides the truth, but the man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.

When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks toward us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.

I am used to hear bad men misuse the name of God, yet God exists.

Good marriages are made in heaven. Or some such place.

Doin' nothing's a dangerous occupation.

I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.

Los Angeles can be a really sad city.

One has the right to be wrong in a democracy

Whatever it is that you're passionate about... try to figure out a way to make money at it and give it a shot.

We'd all be alot happier if we'd stop assuming we're supposed to be happy.

I wouldn't call it an addiction. But the truth is, when you join a team as a new professional you encounter a system. As a young rider, older riders let you know how the business works.

To acknowledge that I am yet a sinner is not to deny that I am a saint but to acknowledge how I became one, by grace.

I feel that by writing I am doing what is far more necessary than anything else.