There is hardly any deviancy, no matter how reprehensible in one context, which is not extolled as a virtue in another. There are no natural crimes, only legal ones.

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

It is not only by the questions we have answered that progress may be measured, but also by those we are still asking.

Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.

The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.

Of all the tyrannies which have usurped power over humanity, few have been able to enslave the mind and body as imperiously as drug addiction.

Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

Mist to mist, drops to drops. For water thou art, and unto water shalt thou return.

No matter how much (or how little) help someone provides, always say thanks. Thank yous are simple but important.

Understanding proximate cause is also like understanding your mother: It can take years and then, just when you think you have her figured out, she surprises you.

I eat everything I want on Christmas day. I really don't watch what I eat. It's not like you have Christmas every day!

I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for the message that I'm delivering, and delivering with a sense of violent love.

Every day I wake up and go to sleep, I'm thinking about beating Cub Swanson

Being an actress is the sublimation of feminity.

Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure, if you know how to use it. The best morsel is reserved for last.

Somehow I find it easier to inhabit characters if they are a little bit pathetic. I do seem to have an affinity with pathetic people.

Faith is more than thinking something is true. Faith is thinking something is true to the extent that we act on it.