The courts are an easy scapegoat because at a time when everything has to boiled down to easy slogans, we speak in subtleties.

The judiciary must not take on the coloration of whatever may be popular at the moment. We are guardian of rights, and we have to tell people things they often do not like to hear.

Its always the minorities who arent a part of the mainstream who define what the limits... of the majority are going to be.

It is easy to be popular. It is not easy to be just.

My role isn't to be politically smart. My role is to do what's right under the constitution. And if that's politically unpopular, so be it.

Courts are an aristocratic institution in a democracy. That's the dilemma for an institution that has the function of reviewing the will of the people. We're bound to be "anti-majoritarian."

Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.

We are incarcerating more people on a per capita basis in California than any country in the world other than South Africa or the Soviet Union.

Sometime I wish if I were from Mars, because no one loves me here.

When I was young I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness. I was right.

It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.

For most of my life I have known how to control my feelings. If you can control your feelings, you can pretty much control your whole world. It's amazingly effective.

Chase your passion, not your pension.

On the whole, Chaucer impresses us as greater than his reputation, and not a little like Homer and Shakespeare, for he would haveheld up his head in their company.

Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!

To hearts which near each other move From evening close to morning light,The night is good; because, my love,They never say good-night.

For me photography was the means to the end, but they made it the most important thing. (On the discovery of X-ray photography.)