Sometimes I think everyone's an attorney.

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.

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.

False fears are a plague, a modern plague!

Was he a beast if music could move him so?

When there is nothing left to burn, you have to set yourself on fire.

Leaders who are silent and do nothing are as guilty and do worse than those who commit these horrific attacks

A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him.

I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.

Even if I loved the script, the director has to be right because it's all about the filmmaker. It's their vision. They're the ones that go back into the editing room and reassemble the film.

Competition makes you better, always, always makes you better, even if the competitor wins.

I never noticed the stars before. I always thought of them as great big diamonds that belonged to some one. Now they frighten me. They make me feel that it was all a dream, all my youth.

Such bees! Bilbo had never seen anything like them. "If one were to sting me," He thought "I should swell up as big as I am!

The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.