“Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.”

“Our increasingly humanistic laws, courts and legislators are giving us a new morality. They tell us, as they strike down laws resting upon biblical foundations, that morality cannot be legislated, but what they offer is not only legislated morality, but salvation by law.”

“Laws, enforced by the sword, control behavior but cannot change hearts.”

“Severability is an important concept in the context of the relations between this Court and Parliament; like 'reading down', it is an instrument of judicial restraint which reduces the danger of producing an overbroad judicial reaction to overbroad legislation.”

“May I nurture the serenity to accept the things I cannot change the courage to change the things I can change and wisdom to know the difference”

“One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.”