The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.

A just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you'd be willing to enter it in a random place.

The fairest rules are those to which everyone would agree if they did not know how much power they would have.

The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.

An injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.

Justice is happiness according to virtue.

A society regulated by a public sense of justice is inherently stable.

The sense of justice is continuous with the love of mankind.

The intolerant can be viewed as free-riders, as persons who seek the advantages of just institutions while not doing their share to uphold them.

Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogmatic.

Liberal constitutional democracy is supposed to ensure that each citizen is free and equal and protected by basic rights and liberties.

Prayer and Bible study are inseparably linked. Effective prayer is born out of the prompting of God’s Spirit as we read His Word.

I was beginning to feel compassion for myself.

Wit has truth in it wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.

If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the generations that discovered the New World.

Winning is everything in Hollywood.

Most of the time he [Marlon Brando] sounds like he has a mouth full of toilet paper.

Success is a nice thing because it always means you've taken a step forward and it gives you a sense of pride, which in turn gives you confidence and experience-a positive circle, so to speak.

It was as familiar to me as a song I'd been hearing my whole life, covered by various people but the basic tune the same.

They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him.