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.

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.

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.

But there's always a first time for everything

I think this is what we all want to hear: that we are not alone in hitting the bottom, and that it is possible to come out of that place courageous, beautiful, and strong.

Upgrading one's imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith.

It's a rare gift to understand that your life is wondrous, and that it won't last forever.

We were thinkers not talkers.We were problems not solutions.We were heroes of the dark, villains with a spark.

All accidents and experiments, and discoveries, are what my work is about. The problem that I have as an artist is being way too critical.

Being wealthy is often a powerful predictor that people spend less time doing pleasurable things and more time doing compulsory things and feeling stressed.

I wanted to play my violin and have my musical expression through the instrument. But then I was really young when I had my first opportunity to conduct.

Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.

One of the problems I have with many writers is their stories are all somewhat similar. They might be very good, but they're always on the same turf. I don't have those limitations.