The public regards lawyers with great distrust. They think lawyers are smarter than the average guy but use their intelligence deviously. Well, they're wrong. Usually they are not smarter.

Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.

In America, an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent, it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win.

I have never seen a major trial which lacked significant perjury, and I have yet to see that perjury punished.

I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.

Fear is something you have to throw into a corner. Constantly. Because it never goes away.

I would strongly recommend any young man to stay away from criminal law. It's not a good place to be, unfortunately.

Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.

I enjoy personal injury cases. I've tried quite a few of those. And, frankly, any kind of litigation that is trouble-shooting, whether it's equities, suits and injunctions, or whatever.

Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.

The memory of the American public is about six weeks.

With great enthusiasm, pursue your dreams.

One does not like insults yet ironically he is an expert in insulting others. How can this be called a human-behavior?

I wonder, said the Lord I wonder if I know the answer any more.

My wife would say I'm not romantic at all, but I would say that I'm the ultimate romancer because I write about... life being brilliant.

I hope we can get back to what I call the kitchen table. Everyday issues that people are really worried about and focused on.

I mean, who wants to trudge through life, doing everything just right? Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.

Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.

When the dog bites, when the bee stings, when I'm feeling sad, I simply remember my favorite things and then I don't feel so bad.

The most heartbreakingly poignant modern love story ever written.

I am never five minutes into stripping the clutter from my life before I start running into the clutter that is my life.