The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.

An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement.

One man's larceny is another's just distribution of goods.

Our country is being radically altered, step by step, by Justices who are not following any law.

No activity that society thinks immoral is victimless. Knowledge that an activity is taking place is a harm to those who find it profoundly immoral.

It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.

Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.

No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find it politically useful, and that is less respect than disguised contempt.

[The current governing judicial philosophy is:] If you want something passionately enough, it is guaranteed by the Constitution. No need to fiddle around gathering votes from recalcitrant citizens.

Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.

Exist with me. We'd do so beautifully.

I just can’t do it anymore. It’s too painful. It doesn’t mean I’m over you, it means I’m not going to waste the rest of my life being haunted by your memory.

I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.

When inspiration comes life is lived in the moment and peace descends. When inspiration leaves thoughts turn to violently killing time

Though both are bound in the spiral dance, I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess.

Many a smiling face hides a mourning heart; but grief alone teaches us what we are.

It's too expensive, that's the thing nobody wants to talk about. It is too expensive to make movies. That's not true, it is too expensive to market movies. Making movies is not.

It's been a privilege to be here.

I always had the intuition, even as a little child, that I was called for a big project.

Economists can never be free of from difficulties unless they will distinguish between a theory and the application of a theory.