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

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.

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

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.

I breathed and breathed and did feel some calmness enter in, though it was, as always, shot with a sense of loss. Loss and fear.

...I used to think if you read enough books you'd automatically know how to do everything the right way. But reading and doing are not the same at all.

With all these forks in the roads of our path, why do so many choose to take the knife?

There really is no such thing as Art. There are only artists.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.

Robin Williams, another person I didn't know. He is genuinely hilarious.

My lungs taste the air of Time,Blown past falling sands.

My approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones.

The policy of the repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked. The alternative to it is the long difficult road of education. To this the American people have committed.