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."

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

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.

TO be practical not merely means to steal when everybody steals but to act with wits and wisdom...

The remedy for our social evils does not consist so much in changing the system of government as it does in increasing the general intelligence of the people so that they may learn how to govern.

Nobody's life is interesting enough to warrant a third memoir.

Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.

We were, the two of us, still fragmentary beings, just beginning to sense the presence of an unexpected, to be-aquired reality that would fill us and make us whole.

My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables.

They are fruit and transport: ripening melons, prairie schooners journeying under full sail.

When the darkness gets easier, you know you're sinking deeper, becoming dead yourself.

Modern dance isn't anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.

The point is, technology has empowered so many musicians, you know?