I love being in a courtroom.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you’re going to be a second-rate artist.

The Bill of Rights is not an a la carte menu.

Egos are never nice. I have been a victim of it a lot of times in my career. Whenever I have used it, I have failed.

In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

I did go to Wellesley, a women’s college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

I left school to concentrate on racing. It was a family decision between my mum, dad and myself.

The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

I just was never into performing. It’s just hard work. It’s hard work.

Racism is real in this country.

I feel that when you care about your music, taking risks is something you should do to keep things exciting.

I believe in a passion for inclusion.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

Effective action is always unjust.

I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.

After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.

Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.

Playing basketball all my life, I’ve collected a lot of different basketball shoes. It’s pretty much all I wear.

I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence.

I still love football, though, and I think cooking is like football. It’s not a job, it’s a passion. When you become good at it, it’s a dream job and financially you need never to worry. Ever.

I don’t think there is a single social issue I haven’t spoken on.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

I like to work.

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

When the President does it, that means that it’s not illegal.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

I don’t think there is anything wrong in earning money from the sport you love. If you work hard and get benefits from it, there is no harm. The day you feel that you are not working hard and are only looking at the benefits, that’s where the problem is.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer’s avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.

Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

In my career as a director, there’s always been some point where you get halfway through it, or three-quarters, and you go: ‚What is this thing all about, and why am I telling the story? Does anybody really care about seeing this?‘ At that time you have to say: ‚OK, forget that and just go ahead.‘

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

Justice is truth in action.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put – without delay, and with tenderness – back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap – let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

I have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‚You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.‘

If I could have worked from the time I was born until I was 18 and never had to work again, I would have done it.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

Have you ever asked yourselves what you are going to do when you grow up? In all likelihood you will get married, and before you know where you are, you will be mothers and fathers; and you will then be tied to a job, or to the kitchen, in which you will gradually wither away. Is that all that your life is going to be?

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.