The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what our tradition pours into us.

Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition.

Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.

In america, there are two tax systems: one for the informed and one for the uninformed. Both are legal

The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country.

In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understands the minds of other men and women.

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Cold prayers, like cold suitors, are seldom effective in their aims.

There are many ways to find meaning in life, one of them is the love of art

Expectations are resentment waiting to happen.

We have been friends together In sunshine and in shade.

When you see a picture of a woolly mammoth on a cave wall, that's weirdly similar to a person's lasagna that they thought looked delicious.

Everyone needs a facelift, except if you are from Brooklyn then you need a nose job !!!

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

I enjoy playing characters where I get to sort of change my look, my voice. It's not about what she wears, it's about what she's got inside.

A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered.