I couldn't add my talent, which is prodigious, to a defense of someone even accused of hurting a child.

I'm particularly committed to the political people who needed defense. I understand that they're fighting a bigger war than just, "Let me go get some money for cocaine tonight."

My anti-authoritarian instincts let me directly to criminal defense work.

The only way not to be afraid is to join with other people who are also afraid.

Lawyering is very individualistic. There are lawyers who are going to be that persistent birddog, they're never going to give up on the client, they're going to defend people.

I would never defend a cop - though I did on a few private cases, when cops were acting not as cops but as private citizens.

The only thing we have is each other.

If you make a mistake as a prosecutor, your mistakes go home, whereas if you make a mistake defending, they go to jail.

Your goal is to make a better world through the work you do. It's not always possible, and you have to earn a living.

You're working not for the corporate interest, not for the government interest, not for your own self-interest. You have a higher calling.

I took anything that came across my doorstep. I started getting a reputation.

Just say up on the hill is the meaning of life and someone knew it and they wanted everyone else to enjoy it. So they put a red vinyl sofa up there.

The course of nature is the art of God.

For all of us who listen, in the stillness of our hearts, God enlightens us and offers to lead the way.

Give a man a fish, feed home for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed for a lifetime.

No more prizes for predicting the rain, only prizes for building the arks

A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.

Davy lets fly an oath and storms out of the hold. We hear his fist hit the wall as he leaves. you really are an evil girl, says Jaimy. I know, I murmur. I shall have to pay.

A thoughtless citizen of a democracy is a delinquent citizen of a democracy.

Your Life is always a result of your thoughts about it-including your obviously creative thought that you seldom get what you choose.

I sincerely pray that all the members of the human family may, in the time prescribed by the Father of us all, find themselves securely established in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and happiness.