The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitutions protection of privacy.

Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.

In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.

The right to privacy... is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.

If there is any truth to the old proverb that "one who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client," the Court now bestows a constitutional right on one to make a fool of himself.

A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that god prefers some

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.

Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong.

If [a United States Supreme Court Justice is] in the doghouse with the Chief [Justice], he gets the crud. He gets the tax cases.

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. ... I fell morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed.

Joy is all around me, and I celebrate it all.

One of the aims of forgiveness is to turn the frozen, pent-up energy in stored-up emotions into free energy that people can express themselves with in the present.

Today is yesterday's pupil.

I love to believe that there's one god but there's many different religions so there's just the question of which long distance company you pick.

We take care of illegal immigrants, people that come into the country illegally, better than we take care of our vets. That can't happen.

It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.

I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.

Have a strong vision about the story you want to tell and how you want to tell it.

I don't write songs, songs write me.

You have a transportation fetish. I have a Gideon fetish. It's been weeks.