You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.

Respect is both earned and lost.

One thing God has been showing me is that I'm not called to save the world, just to point those He places in my life towards the right way.

One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.

I can get on with all different sorts of people, and I never feel homesick, particularly, or I've never felt kind of patriotic towards any one country.

Before comparing yourself with others, win the battle with yourself. Strive to be better today than yesterday, and better tomorrow than today.

The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.

In the late 1960s, I ended up in Telluride, Colorado. It wasnt like the country club that it is now. It was very raw. Skiing was there, but snowboarders have now entirely overrun it.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?

The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum.

Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part.