Well, first of all, no professor should be able to say, I refuse to defend my position. I refuse to debate my position.

Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice and they are also the most protected.

The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.

The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.

Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally.

In the real world in which we live, you always have to choose between evils. And in choosing between evils, you have to have moral criteria for how to make those choices.

There are many levels of truth.

It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.

I was critical of race-based affirmative action early on in my career and I've changed my mind. And I've publicly acknowledged that I was wrong.

There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life.

Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians.

You can never tell how high you could climb on the ladder of success until you start giving your goals some honest courageous attempts.

Thou shalt not submit thy god to market forces.

All writers pen sad stories to garner sympathy, writing is after all for the abandoned of the society: the ink-leech, spewing black blood and sucking innocent souls.

What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.

As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.

I'm perfectly healthy.

The manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself.

It can't be pretty without being ugly first.

There is nothing more practical than the preservation of beauty, than the preservation of anything that appeals to the higher emotions of mankind

The eye sees all, but the mind shows us what we want to see.