We are incarcerating more people on a per capita basis in California than any country in the world other than South Africa or the Soviet Union.

The judiciary must not take on the coloration of whatever may be popular at the moment. We are guardian of rights, and we have to tell people things they often do not like to hear.

Its always the minorities who arent a part of the mainstream who define what the limits... of the majority are going to be.

It is easy to be popular. It is not easy to be just.

My role isn't to be politically smart. My role is to do what's right under the constitution. And if that's politically unpopular, so be it.

Courts are an aristocratic institution in a democracy. That's the dilemma for an institution that has the function of reviewing the will of the people. We're bound to be "anti-majoritarian."

The courts are an easy scapegoat because at a time when everything has to boiled down to easy slogans, we speak in subtleties.

Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.

Bad timekeeping will suck the life out of your bank account.

Rage and bitterness do not foster femininity. They harden the heart and make the body sick.

Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly.

We shouldn't romanticize rejection. There's nothing romantic about rejection. It's horrible.

We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.

You should really treat stand-up like you would a play. It's a one-man play.

I've got two places I like to be. Portugal is one.

The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

When you say something in a wrong group - it will never be right, so you can not say anything wrong, when you don't belong to a group.

I don't want to limit myself as an artist and only do a certain sound.