If America has the right to target Osama bin Laden, or terrorists, of course Israel has the right to defend itself from terrorism.

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.

Love that is within you is also flowing through the hearts of your neighbors and friends.

Ah, Harry, how often this happens, even between the best of friends! Each of us believes that what he has to say is much more important than anything the other might have to contribute!

My garden in England is full of eating-out places, for heat waves, warm September evenings, or lunch on a frosty Christmas morning.

The world was not made for any one species.

Love teaches you to love your own mortality, just as we love the flowers that bloom for a short time and pass on.

The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product.

What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure.

You know that you are. Don't burden yourself with names, just be. Any name or shape you give yourself obscures your real nature.

We're a bit sensitive to blood around here. I'm sure you can understand that.

The so-called mysteries of quantum mechanics are in its philosophical interpretation, not in its mathematics.