This is a very, very conservative judge who in his dissenting opinions is overwhelmingly likely to be more conservative than the majority.

I strongly believe that the Second Amendment creates an individual right to possess and use guns for purposes of both hunting and self-defense.

I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.

As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.

There is no liberty without dependency. That is why we should celebrate tax day.

I'll tell you an explanation that I find commonly overrated and speculative in the extreme: the idea that things that succeed in popular culture do that because they hit the temper of the times.

There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft

Catholicism is a wide tent in terms of political and legal positions. We could have nine Catholics on the Supreme Court and a great deal of diversity toward the law.

Once we know that people are human and have some Homer Simpson in them, then there's a lot that can be done to manipulate them.

A program that saves young people produces more welfare than one that saves old people.

Somewhat more broadly, I will suggest that animals should be permitted to bring suit, with human beings as their representatives, to prevent violations of current law.

For the space of many, many years, you were enough for me. You were my bliss, and my hallelujah.

We are what we repeatedly do. Greatness then, is not an act, but a habit

Weekends are life’s gift to those who hate their jobs.

Imitation is for shirkers like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers unifying for the creators.

Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can't comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there's no life and love inside.

Art can be a medium for people to discover universal spirit, with imagery not isolated to one particular wisdom path, but pointing to the underlying truth that they all transmit.

To become learned, each day add something. To become enlightened, each day drop something

I see songwriting as having to do with experience, and the more you've experienced, the better it is. But it has to be tempered, and you just must let your imagination run.

The mental pattern must always precede the material form.