Possession isn’t nine-tenths of the law. It’s nine-tenths of the problem.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Opportunity makes a thief.

He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation’s equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.

Pirate was going to be my middle name, but then my uncle had a problem with it because pirates are bad.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies – it is the first law of nature.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

War does not determine who is right – only who is left.

It was an act of patriotism when we worked to pass a law allowing the prosecution of federal hate crimes in the name of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd.

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

The earth laughs in flowers.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

If we weren’t all crazy, we’d just go insane.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress ‚suspects.‘

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

Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.

Boredom is… a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

I love being in a courtroom.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it… I can resist everything but temptation.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, ‚Truth is the daughter of Time.‘

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

I would not look to the U.S. Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in 2012.

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

Alfred Hitchcock once told me, when I was analyzing a lot of things about his pictures, ‚Clint, you must remember, it’s only a movie.‘

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.

All those who believe in psychokinesis – raise my hand.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

This above all; to thine own self be true.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.