Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn't change.

It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.

What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?

A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless.

If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?

Devout Christians are destined to be regarded as fools in modern society. We are fools for Christ's sake. We must pray for courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world.

Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize.

I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.

For in order for capitalism to work -- in order for it to produce a good and a stable society -- the traditional Christian virtues are essential.

In the eyes of government we are just one race here. It is American.

Foolishly romantic, yeah, sure, maybe: but she'd rather have dreams of Prince Charming than the reality of Mr. Wrong.

Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spinThe Thread of present Life away to win-What? for ourselves, who know not if we shallBreathe out the very Breath we now breathe in!

His words were softer than oil yet they were drawn swords.

It is this ability to bear what is unbearable and to go on living, to go on doing what one is used to doing—it is this uncanny ability that the existence of the human race is based on.

Some things which are remote in space and time from a living creature, especially a human creature, may form his environment even more truly than some of the things close to him.

Set small goals along the way and don't be overwhelmed by the process.

Thirty-three percent of all of our regrets pertain to decisions we made about education.

You never know what doors are going to open up and why they are going to open up. You've got to be ready to walk through them.

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