Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you as, if not quite divine, someone special.

The trial lawyer does what Socrates was executed for: making the worse argument appear the stronger.

The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.

The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial.

No other profession is subject to the public contempt and derision that sometimes befalls lawyers. the bitter fruit of public incomprehension of the law itself and its dynamics.

In order to be successful you must decide to be intentional about what you do, how you live, and who you are becoming.

Thinking is the hardest work anyone can do, which is probably the reason why we have so few thinkers.

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.

The method of "postulating" what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.

It is very important that the president thematically shows where we're going in terms of the vision and an agenda.

God is not merely good, but goodness; goodness is not merely divine, but God.

To my mind, Guernica is the most important online intellectual and literary journal in America today.

Muslims have a right to every other people, like everybody, to come to the United States.

What Plato was really asking was perhaps why a horse was a horse, and not, for example, a cross between a horse and a pig.