"Law is the rudder of the ship of state."

“Healthy disagreement, debate, leading to compromise has always been the American way.”

“I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.”

Source : "I pick up my pen. A building appears". Interview with Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2007.

“Why don't you bore a hole in yourself and let the sap run out?”

“Government is only a necessary evil, like other go-carts and crutches. Our need of it shows exactly how far we are still children. All governing overmuch kills the self-help and energy of the governed.”

“I wouldn't change my past for anything, because I think it's made me who I am. I'm so enormously grateful for all that I have in my life.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

“People will tell you that writing is too difficult, that it's impossible to get your work published, that you might as well hang yourself. Meanwhile, they'll keep writing and you'll have hanged yourself.”

“Any time the country is split 50/50, the leader is wrong.”

“The American people have entered upon the mightiest civic struggle known to their history. ... The Golden Rule is rejected by the heads of all the great departments of trade, and the law of Cain, which repudiates the obligations that we are mutually under to one another, is fostered and made the rule of action throughout the world. Corporate feudality has taken the place of chattel slavery and vaunts its power in every state.”