It would be a narrow conception of jurisprudence to confine the notion of "laws" to what is found written on the statute books, and to disregard the gloss which life has written upon it.

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.

We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

Freedom of speech and of the press are essential to the enlightenment of a free people and in restraining those who wield power.

There can be no security where there is fear.

If you love someone, they leave you. But if you don't love someone, they leave you, too. So your choice isn't between loving and losing but only between loving and not loving.

Create your own path.

My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.

I basically don't do that well with children, although my sister says I'm a great aunt.

One night Roger was in a foul mood and he threw his entire bloody drumset across the stage. The thing only just missed me - I might have been killed.

Religion teaches us that our lives here on earth are to be used for transformation.

Numb is the new deep, done with the old me, and talk is the same cheap it's been.

Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.

As you embrace the process-oriented approach described in The Practicing Mind, you'll achieve better results in any endeavor.

Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.