"The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance."

"Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere."

"Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason."

"The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left."

"There are no moral phenomena, only a moral interpretation of phenomena."

"The moral compass points true only when freed from the magnetism of personal gain. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis."

"In my old age, I have been thinking about this, and I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage."