These people have elevated audacity to symphonic and operatic levels. The Florida Supreme Court relied on new law to resolve the election dispute down there.

One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.

Doubt . . . impels a search for the truth. It opens the door to knowledge. Faith puts a lock on the door. Indeed, . . . faith anesthetizes the desire to seek knowledge and truth.

Winning is often simply getting up off the ground one more time than your opponent.

And I believe the truth is mighty, and shines by its own light.

I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.

Waiting for the conspiracy theorists to tell the truth is a little like leaving the front-porch light on for Jimmy Hoffa.

My only master, my only mistress are the facts and the evidence. So if I reach a conclusion, it's only because the evidence took me there.

[Faith] is nothing more than wishful thinking, and the wish is no evidence of anything beyond itself. Yet so many religious people take their wishes for reality.

I may have implied on several occasions to several different people that I may have been Jesus Christ, but I haven't decided yet what I am or who I am.

A very beautiful honey blonde, Sharon Tate, looked into the eyes of the man who the evidence shows just four and a half months later would order her tragic and violent death.

One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.

The courage to try again is daring spirit.

No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and is prepared to assume responsibilities.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

It's very hard to play a hyperactive character all the time, I try my best, but I end up collapsing at the end of the day.

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.

Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.

True, but if it’s good it’s going be so very, very good.

A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world.

Filling life exceedingly is called ominous.