I will defend anyone as long as the client gives me total control of the case and pays up front.

These newspaper reporters... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times... have got a license to lie.

They don't need a lawyer, they need a toastmaster.

I believe there are certain things that cannot be bought -- loyalty, friendship, health, love and an American League pennant.

What are you supposed to do - stop practicing law whenever one of your friends becomes president?

In life every effort is marked down at the end as a win or a loss.

Achieving your goal should always be of secondary importance. Your focus should be on becoming the kind of person deserving of the goal.

Playing it safe might not have hurt anyone, but it wouldn’t have inspired many, either.

To be defeated is only a fable in which one may tell of oneself. I will try and I will try again, though never shall I call it failure. I am simply one step closer to thy truth.

Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me.

Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

Innovations never happen as planned.

From his brimstone bed, at break of day, A-walking the Devil is gone, To look at his little snug farm of the World, And see how his stock went on.

None so empty of grace as he that thinks he is full.

Let me not live, after my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff of younger spirits.

My new year's resolution is definitely to quit smoking. I need to do it.