To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

It's good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it.

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

While negativity is politically useful it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied - and to some extent overshadowed - by elevated and inspiring ideas about the American future.

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He's always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life.

One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience or whether that's even possible interested me.

For me first it's finding quiet in my life - and I do that through yoga and meditation. It's also been a matter of changing the way I eat because I think what we eat can inform who we are food is a chemical and a drug to a certain extent.

To a certain extent I am taking a leap of faith. I'm adding up the evidence on either side and I'm seeing the evidence of there not being a God is overwhelming compared to the evidence for there being a God.

Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men to that extent denies the faith of the Master.

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.

You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time you want to be truthful to the predecessors because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent.

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality the two basic ideas of democracy are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered freedom and equality are mutually exclusive just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.

My children to the extent that they have found religion have found it from me in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

To the extent that we are all educated and informed we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us.

I think by planning an exercise regime your diet follows to some extent.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

Sep-11 2001 revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.

I liked the way my character Shane was first introduced. You get introduced to her through this sexual action and I thought that was so cool and just kind of summed up what she enjoys and who she is to a certain extent. She's a complete sexual being and the great thing is that she doesn't apologize for it. It's just who she is. We rarely see women be able to do that on television.

I think being a wealthy member of the establishment is the antithesis of cool. Being a countercultural revolutionary is cool. So to the extent that you've made a billion dollars you've probably become uncool.