There's such a kind of complicated line between politics and the law and we don't sit around and say, hey, you know, what would Oliver Wendell Holmes have had to say to this.

Allowing ourselves to become a nation of silent, secretive, timid citizens is likely to result in a system of democracy and justice that is neither very democratic nor very just.

The First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Yours are perfectly rational.

The fact that the Constitution is sufficiently open-ended to infuriate all Americans almost equally is part of its enduring genius.

We don't care what the framers would have thought of violent video games. Times are changing.

Am I right in saying that the locust of this problem is simply that judges in America are half political animals and half oracular demigods?

Pulling a crystalline, cogent rule out of the murk of the court's First Amendment, public forum, and Establishment Clause doctrine is an act of creation too complicated for mere mortals.

There is no rest stop on the misinformation highway.

I think particularly on the left, progressives wanted more bombast and more.

Never believe in any faith younger than you are.

I want to stay on the subject of marriage equality because this is the part of the show that everybody loves but you hate if you're the one who has to hear your own voice.

Whatever fills your heart with joy and fills your mind with love--that is your truth of love.

To ascend you must rise above, and I believe in the idea of keeping your “feet in the clouds and your head in the stars”.

Put your sword back in its place, " Jesus said to him, "for all who draw the sword will die by the sword.

Architecture is art, nothing else.

Passing a tough resolution or threatening Iran will not bring about the desired outcome.

Enthusiasm is a kind of faith that has been set afire

You may very well fall in love with somebody who makes less money, who's younger than you, who weighs less than you.

A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.

The big change is the proximity to death.

I like to read either in motion or in water... I am happiest reading in the bathtub.