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

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

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.

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.

Do what you love, love what you do, and with all your heart give yourself to it.

Inner peace comes from the Creator.

By the grace of reality and the nature of life, man—every man—is an end in himself, he exists for his own sake, and the achievement of his own happiness is his highest moral purpose.

It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general.

There is no Silence in the Earth - so silent As that endured Which uttered, would discourage Nature And haunt the World.

My looks mean nothing to me. If anything, they are a hindrance.

It's not always what you know, but who you know. Get out and meet people.

People think I'm an overnight success. No. It's just that you all found me overnight.

Get smart and nothing can touch you.

I am just a nice, clean-cut Mongolian boy.