If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.

So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned.

Of course, conservatives always claim to be against judicial activism.

The takings clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals.

Many 'hard' scientists regard the term 'social science' as an oxymoron. Science means hypotheses you can test, and prove or disprove. Social science is little more than observation putting on airs.

In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted Kennedy.

He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one's nastiness does not make one nice.

Americans don't want leadership. They want alchemy.

Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy.

If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political system began to take notice.

I have a saying: the scandal isn't what's illegal, the scandal is what's legal.

It isn’t fair, but maybe that’s the whole point. Fairness has no part in real life, and she took that lesson away from the Hotel Angeline with her.

Being a woman, I tried, I cared, I loved and blamed in return.

She lit my soul and inhaled deeplyFlicking my ashes occasionally.

I don't consider myself as the best player in the world. I'm not obsessed with individual titles. I'm much more interested in being part of a team which wins trophies.

I look on life as a joyous adventure.

With them I gladly shared my all and learned the great truth that where God guides, He provides.

Photography is 10% inspiration and 90% moving furniture.

If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.

Know when to give up a lost cause. Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be.

Making sure that the geography and timelines work is always the hardest part of writing. But you owe it to the readers to get it right!