What are the maxims of Democracy? A strict observance of justice and public faith, and a steady adherence to virtue.

Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.

The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will.

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is.

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well

A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law.

A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.

A constitution is framed for ages to come, and is designed to approach immortality as nearly as human institutions can approach it.

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.

To obtain a just compromise, concession must not only mutual-it must be equal also....There can be no hope that either will yield more than it gets in return.

Work harder to appreciate your ordinary day.

But the Sufis work IN the world, and therefore WITH 'things of the world'.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not.

I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.

I had no idea what art was. There was one art class in high school, but it didn't make a big impression on me. Then I went to college and thought I'd become a writer.

The best way to learn is to teach

I'm actually scared of horror movies. I'm kind of Scaredy Cat when it comes to that stuff.

Life is Quicker Than a Blink of an Eye

My resistance to communication work is because of 15 years with my former wife where we did all this work, but we never got to the core of anything.

Defeats and failures are great developers of character. They have made the giants of our race by giving Titanic muscles, brawny sinews, and far-reaching intellects.