The Court is perhaps one of the last citadels of jealously preserved individualism. For the most part, we function as nine, small independent law firms.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Pissing people off doesn't mean you're doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off.

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.

The most important thing I learned is that soldiers watch what their leaders do. You can give them classes and lecture them forever, but it is your personal example they will follow.

Respect for leaders by followers can't be mandated; it must be earned. It has to be given to leaders by their followers.

Get mad, then get over it.

Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.

Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name of the person to whom the sentences are attributed.

Always be the light. Do not wait for others to take responsibility

I've been running like this since I was seven.

I had not thought of violets of late, The wild, shy kind that springs beneath you feet In wistful April days.

Neither a Fortress nor a Maidenhead will hold out long after they begin to parley.

Similarly, only people as misanthropic as myself can be counted on not to have to lie to others, since we have the unique luxury of not caring what sort of opinions others formulate about us.

Every father knows at once too much and too little about his own son.

We must acknowledge that for scores of years the Iraqis have offered martyrs and victims but have not been able to change the regime.

There are people in the world who have the power to change our values.

Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.