Nobody dares to solve the problems-because the solution might contradict your philosophy, and for most people clinging to beliefs is more important than succeeding in the world.

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

Like all trial attorneys, he knew the importance of not dressing too well.

Extrapolating from the statistical growth of the legal profession, by the year 2035 every single person in the United States will be a lawyer, including newborn infants.

You can't get decent Mexican food in DC.

When you have a strongly held belief, don't you think it's important to express that belief accurately?

The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide.

Expectation works in mysterious ways---and totally unconsciously.

False fears are a plague, a modern plague!

Sometimes I think everyone's an attorney.

The danger of procrastination is that it gives you fake impression that you have all the time and makes you forget that time passes by every second and minute.

Books. People have no idea how beautiful books are. How they taste on your fingers. How bright everything is when you light it with words.

We can help the next generation, with the stories we write today.

Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind.

Whether you stay six weeks, six months or six years, always leave it better than you found it.

Every family in America knows they have to do a budget. Every small business in America knows they have to do a budget. Every local government, every state, knows they have to do a budget.

The British don't runaway from terrorism. We have had 30-odd years of terrorism in our own country from the Irish Republican Army. We're used to it.

People who are greedy have extraordinary capacities for waste-they must, they take in too much.

I am not a ventriloquist.

I live for freedom, and freedom is a lie.