One regret I have is that I did not learn more about what was happening very early, so that I could have tried to stop people from engaging in illegal activities.

Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called me one day.

It was frightening because it was the first time I had gotten a sense of how serious the problem was. It became clear from his notes that he felt the president himself was involved.

Morgan, Lewis is a very large firm now, but it was not quite as big then. It was exciting for an associate in those days, because you got good and varied assignments and terrific training.

But look, you did not have to be well versed in politics to know that some stupid things were going on. It is the counsel's job to stop them, and instead the coverup was created.

Embrace wisdom and relentlessly pursue joy, and you can live agelessly.

It wasn't so hard being like your parents or 180 degrees the other way. What was hard was not being one way or the other.

Novels written with film contracts in mind have a faint but unmistakable, and ruinous, odor.

You go and you buy a lottery ticket. You've got just as much chance of getting struck by lightning as you do of winning the lottery.

Healing is the discovery of the Divinity within.

Unless something happens that we can't predict, I don't think a lot will happen

We suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!

So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more.

What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!

We will never have Fascism in England; no Englishman will dress up, not even for a revolution.