You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.

Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition.

Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.

In america, there are two tax systems: one for the informed and one for the uninformed. Both are legal

The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country.

In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understands the minds of other men and women.

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals of goodness and justice.

Success in many of life's most important endeavors begins with a commitment to act like the person you hope to become.

The life of every river sings its own song, but in most the song is long marred by the discords of misuse.

There's artists that I'm working with on a new label of mine. Foxy Nova and Supa Nova.

I think you're the grumpy Kid in the Hall, I'm the nice Kid in the Hall.

I'm in five guilds; that's a lot of dues to pay. So I have to keep on working.

It's an odd thing about love. When someone you love cries, your heart melts. But when someone you don't love cries, you look at them and think, Why are you telling 'me' this?

I love lots of different types of music, but it's music that has this up-swelling of beauty and emotion that is most important to me.

Every act is an act of self definition.

The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure, while always arriving.