When I was 14 or 15, a camp counselor told me I was smart. I had never been very good in school, but he told me once that I was smart but my mind operated a little differently.

Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice and they are also the most protected.

The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.

The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.

Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally.

In the real world in which we live, you always have to choose between evils. And in choosing between evils, you have to have moral criteria for how to make those choices.

There are many levels of truth.

It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.

I was critical of race-based affirmative action early on in my career and I've changed my mind. And I've publicly acknowledged that I was wrong.

There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life.

Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians.

Being with you is like standing next to the sun. It's so hot you die if you don't move.

There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back.

We think we know people. We think that what we see is all there is. We rarely ask ourselves what goes on behind the curtain. We jump to conclusions. And we take everything very personally.

I think I'm happiest when there are really talented people around.

She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.

I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.

I definitely believe in the energy of the set and the energy of the actor, way more than your written word.

It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.

Most of God's people are contented to be saved from the hell that is without; they are not so anxious to be saved from the hell that is within.

Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.