We write a subscript to our mortality. We make our lives tiny diamonds in the cosmic sands.

Moral principle is the foundation of law.

Integrity is the key to understanding legal practice. Law's empire is defined by attitude, not territory or power or process.

What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality.

Mist to mist, drops to drops. For water thou art, and unto water shalt thou return.

Never hurt people who love you a lot because they won't hurt you back. but they will probaly have no choice but to leave you forever

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

Her strength was in the integrity of her actions; she never compromised what she believed she ought to do.

Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity.

There's a kind of permission for war which can be given only by the world's mood and atmosphere, the feel of its pulse. It would be madness to undertake a war without that permission.

I always remind my kids, "I'm your parent, but I'm a human being, too, so I may not be perfect."

Whoever does not know God hidden in suffering does not know God at all.

The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things...Things must happen when it is time for them to happen.

If there is a God, you owe him far more than a morally decent life.