The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates.

However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation with other values arises.

It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house.

The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates.

Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.

To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.

Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.

Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.

We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field.

We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.

It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to "discover" a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing.

There can be no assumption that today's majority is "right" and the Amish and others like them are "wrong." A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.

Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.

Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to 'discover' a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing.

There can be no assumption that today's majority is 'right' and the Amish and others like them are 'wrong.' A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.

An agreement cannot be the result of an imposition.

But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.

We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.

I think being gay is a blessing, and it's something I am thankful for every single day.

Nobody told David Clarke what to think, what to feel, what to say, what to believe in, who to marry, what kind of food to eat - you know that thing that the race hustlers like to say defines your blackness? But yet every time I look in the mirror in the morning, I see a black guy looking back at me.

I love going on IMDb message boards, and there are some hilarious things that go on there - the most negative people on the planet.

Properly practiced creativity must result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent.

Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls his watery labyrinth, which whoso drinks forgets both joy and grief.

Humility is preserved when I give credit where credit is due - to God.

It's a coup by the GOP to grab the governorship to California to make this place a safe haven for George W. Bush in 2004. It's incredible when you think about it. The recall cost the state $100 million.

The whole business is changing dramatically, and the way fans follow and participate in movies, and make their own movies to emulate those movies, is profoundly different.

I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a Mozart of rock music.

I'm really rubbish at putting anything on my skin, because I don't like the feel of it. But I do love Kate Moss' Rimmel lipsticks - I keep them in all my coat pockets.

Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten.

I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

People coming up and saying something nice is always welcome. But when you're being secretly photographed, that's not so nice. I would rather shake hands with someone and exchange a few words than take a selfie.

Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.

The writers that I aspire to, like Joni Mitchell and Randy Newman, they'll tell you that the work gets harder, not easier. And they set that bar for us where we're always striving to do something better than the last time, whether it's the next song or just the next line.

For me, arguably the story of telomeres and telomerase began thousands of years ago, in the cornfields of the Maya highlands of Central America.

I have yet to write that one song that defines my career.

Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.

I always have to have breakfast before I leave the house, even if it's 4 A.M. and I'm not hungry.

Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.