The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional.

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.

The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people.

When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do.

Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.

The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.

In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.

Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious.

The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional.

Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.

Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind that brings new political administrations into temporary power.

The Court stands against any winds that blow as havens of refuge for those who might otherwise suffer because they are helpless weak outnumbered or because they are nonconforming victims of prejudice or public excitement.

The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think speak write and worship as they wish not as the Government commands.

The First Amendment provides the only kind of security system that can preserve a free government one that leaves the way wide open for people to favor discuss advocate or incite causes and doctrines however obnoxious and antagonistic such views may be to the rest of us.

When I was 40 my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldnt play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait to reach 50 to start again.

I would love with all my heart to be able to speak Greek, classical or modern or both. It is a beautiful language, both aurally and in terms of the intricacy of its construction. I took four semesters of Ancient Greek in college, but it's all rusted away now - and I never learned to speak it anyway.

We look to our last sickness for repentance unmindful that it is during a recovery men repent not during a sickness.

I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small.

Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.

I could never be a manager. All I have is natural ability.

Talking is the disease of age.

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising.

In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.

I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained.

When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place.

We know that our cells are speaking to each other.

I'd like to be a wounded leading man. Instead of a pillar of strength, I'd be the scared one.

Continuity is at the heart of conservatism ecology serves that heart.

This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me.

My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

It does surprise me that intelligent people in the 21st century could claim that if you respond to the terrorists with force, you spawn terrorism, but if you appease them, you somehow tame them. This argument, as I said, is very interesting, and very surprising.

People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.

The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to.

I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.