The trial lawyer does what Socrates was executed for: making the worse argument appear the stronger.

The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.

The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial.

No other profession is subject to the public contempt and derision that sometimes befalls lawyers. the bitter fruit of public incomprehension of the law itself and its dynamics.

Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you as, if not quite divine, someone special.

Deepest place in my mind is my thinking and thoughts....Do not try to understand me...Otherwise you will drown in me.

The secret wish of poetry is to stop time.

I'd tried to straighten him out, but there's only so much you can do for a person who thinks Auschwitz is a brand of beer.

Public opinion, or what passes for public opinion, is not invariably a moderating force in the jungle of politics.

Everybody is a dumb blonde at heart.

I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don't know how much experience you've had with contemporary Hebrew. It's quite difficult.

I'm pretty political when it comes to human rights and things like that.

Look it, let me put it to you this way. The NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it.

The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just.

Now is not the time for making new enemies.