What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality.

Moral principle is the foundation of law.

Integrity is the key to understanding legal practice. Law's empire is defined by attitude, not territory or power or process.

We write a subscript to our mortality. We make our lives tiny diamonds in the cosmic sands.

You've got to show the world who you are before it tells you. Otherwise you become victim to someone you're not.

She's kind of a, well, you know, a B with an itch.

He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage.

A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.

There is something very pleasing about the principles of science and the rules of math, because they are so inevitable and so harmonious - in the abstract, anyway.

Noah's wife, who said to Noah, Don't let the elephants watch the rabbits. Never got a dinner!

I do believe I am special. My special gift is my vision, my commitment, and my willingness to do whatever it takes.

You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When things are not always having to represent other things, you find real human beings begin to cautiously appear on your pages.