Your attitude will go a long way in determining your success, your recognition, your reputation and your enjoyment in being a lawyer.

It's not a bad thing fighting for equality and helping the poor. It's not a bad thing to have on your professional tombstone: 'He believed in equality and he helped the poor.'

For every dollar we have given to athletics, we have given about 27 to higher education or medical research.

Medical research is needed, and I just saw there was a need for help that the government - state or federal - was not spending the taxpayers' money on helping people get through college.

I don't think I'm a good ol' boy. Honestly, the last thing I am is a redneck. I like silk sheets, fancy cars, beautiful women, good whiskey.

I was taught that a lawyer was supposed to be a custodian of the community's legal and ethical sense.

We'd incorporated Asia into our bones - its colours and laughter, its smells, its rhythms, its tolerance and patience, its compassion, its lack of ageism.

It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.

The motto in the workaholic Silicon Valley is "Stop for lunch and you are lunch."

One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.

The only love language is 'die to self.'

Finding is reserved for the searchers, we don't find what we need, we find what we search for

I can read music, but I have no technique, and singing was never an option even though I sang a lot growing up.

You've never heard of Chaos theory? Non-linear equations? Strange attractors? Ms. Sattler, I refuse to believe you're not familiar with the concept of attraction.

I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.

I want my fluff-fluff! (Bob) Fluff-fluff… (Zarek looked panicked.) (Zarek)