The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.

It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.

What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?

A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless.

If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?

Devout Christians are destined to be regarded as fools in modern society. We are fools for Christ's sake. We must pray for courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world.

Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize.

I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.

For in order for capitalism to work -- in order for it to produce a good and a stable society -- the traditional Christian virtues are essential.

In the eyes of government we are just one race here. It is American.

Being kind to someone, only to look kind to others, defeats the purpose of being kind.

Statistics indicate that the church is rapidly losing in the population explosion. There are fewer Christians per capita every day.

Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.

Be cautious and content with low positive returns in 2015. The time for risk taking has passed.

Everything a baptized person does each day should be directly or indirectly related to the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.

We're never trying to manipulate and mess with... When you finish the movie, you hope you did a good job but you never know.

I believe in the healing restorative power of art and communication. And so that's probably my rule. But that doesn't apply to bedtimes. And stuff like that.

Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or stupidity.

Never promise more than you can perform.

Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.