The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

The Constitution was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are in union and not division.

Law never is, but is always about to be.

The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.

The final cause of law is the welfare of society.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.

There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.

Self-discovery is the greatest asset.

It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and complicated universe we see all around us.

Is what I did really so much worse than what anybody else does?Is it really so much worse than what you do?Think about it.

There are a lot of good things about string theory, and it's great that some people want to work on it.

I've ended up becoming my mother in some respects, despite my eight years of analysis!

The way I work emotionally is: I don't ever try to cry. I try not to, which is what for me produces organic emotion.

There was a time when all dark-skinned people were called Ethiopians, for the Greeks referred to Africa as, 'The Land Of The Burnt-Face People.'

A lot of people don't think much about what land surveyors do. In a nutshell, we are the interpreters and providers of landmarks and records that directly impact real property.

Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day.

Moving from love, not fear - a beautiful idea, especially when applied literally to the body.