We believe trial judges confronted with disruptive, contumacious, stubbornly defiant defendants must be given sufficient discretion to meet the circumstances in each case.

The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.

I was brought up to believe that Scotch whisky would need a tax preference to survive in competition with Kentucky bourbon.

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion.

Among religions in this country which do not teach what would generally be considered a belief in the existence of God are Buddhism, Taoism, Ethical Culture, Secular Humanism and others.

There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has.

Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have, or the views they express, or the words they speak or write.

The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional.

An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment.

When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.

The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.

The world is made of more than particles. It's made of things you can't hold in your hand, like fear, love, loss, hope, truth.

Now the big question is: what direction are you moving? Look inward

Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

Faith is a withholding of conclusion so that you allow what is to arise.

Nature has provided us a spectacular toolbox. The toolbox exists. An architect far better and smarter than us has given us that toolbox, and we now have the ability to use it.

When we look at life from the top of the mountain, there is no limitation

The life that I have is all that I have and the life that I have is yours. The love that I have of the life that I have is yours and yours and yours.

Clearly," said Arthur,"you're an idiot- but you're our kind of idiot. Come on.

I don't get rattled about the big things. I get rattled when I have to pick up my laundry, get gas in the car, pick up a script.