[Louis] Brandeis is writing directly to us. His clear voice comes through a century and he's speaking to us and he's galvanizing us and he's persuading us. And that's why I love to read the prose.

Privacy is not for the passive.

I was very much influenced by a great book by the scholar Neil Richards called Intellectual Privacy, that [Louis] Brandeis changed his mind on the proper balance between dignity and free speech.

We need to protect the same amount of cognitive liberty in an age where you can invade people's thoughts without physically intruding into their homes than you did at the time of the framing.

[Louis] Brandeis improves the prose. He simplifies it and perfects the balance of the sentence so it becomes even more memorable and aphoristic.

[Louis Brandeis] believes in natural rights of speech and liberty and the right to pursue happiness.

[Oliver Wendell] Holmes never believed in the truth and morality of the laws he was upholding. He said, "I loathe the thick-fingered clowns we call the people."

I think the answer has to do with the fact that [Louis D.] Brandeis was a consistent critic of bigness in business and in government.

[Louis] Brandeis had a very distinctive vision of political economy that he persuaded Woodrow Wilson to adopt in the 1912 election and that he largely enacted from the bench.

[Louis] Brandeis is often painted as an acolyte of judicial restraint, or the view that judges should uphold laws whether or not they like them.

Do you think Bernie Sanders, for example, is citing Theodore Roosevelt as the progenitor of his critique of the banks when actually Roosevelt wanted to keep the banks together and regulate them.

Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.

The world’s sewage system threatens to contaminate the stream of Christian thought. Satan will contest every hour you spend in Bible reading or prayer.

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

History's lesson is to make the most of reform opportunities when they arise because they do not arise often and they do not last long.

What looks tragic might be comic on second consideration, and what is comic might bring tears in time.

If you doubt your sins have been forgiven, that in itself is sin.

In 'Imitation of Life', I was showing how a girl might feel under the circumstances, but I am not showing how I felt.

I've certainly been to Hollywood parties, and I have friends that are ridiculous - wonderful people - but they're high rollers with tons of money.

I worry about Las Vegas schools. I hear in math, they only teach them to count to 21.

My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another.