Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.

A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.

We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.

The Constitution does not require complete separation of church and state; it affirmatively mandates accommodation, not merely tolerance, of all religions, and forbids hostility toward any.

The right of every person "to be let alone" must be placed in the scales with the right of others to communicate.

There may be some incorrigible human beings who cannot be changed except by God's own mercy to that one person.

The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates.

Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.

Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

Doctors still retain a high degree of public confidence because they are perceived as healers. Should lawyers not be healers? Healers, not warriors? Healers, not procurers? Healers, not hired guns?

None of our achievement matters, than how we have lived our lives.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination.

Updike and Bellow and Roth were my three favorite writers when I was young and throughout my life.

It's a lot more common now for someone to know a Mormon rather than just know of Mormons out in Utah, ... We seem more normal. We're not as exotic.

If you want to kill someone, you'd better pull off a perfect crime. Our security lies in the fact that that's damnably hard to do.

Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.

Good human relations not only bring great personal rewards but are essential to the success of any enterprise.

The poor never have enough for themselves ... but always have enough to give away.

I hated Sundays when I was growing up in Streatham, south London. Everything closed down and stopped.

I don't belive Oprah's sexual abuse stories, I mean who would take a black girl when there are plenty of white?