Money ... Position ... Glory ...

... Some day you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are. .

- Rudyard Kipling, in an address to McGill University in Montreal

 

 

We're all better than the worst thing that we've done in our lives.

- Bryan Stevenson, Law Professor, Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, and champion of Civil Rights

 


It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

- Abraham Lincoln




A lawyer is either a social engineer or he's a parasite on society.

- Charles H. Houston, Dean of Howard University Law School
and trainer of many early Civil Rights lawyers






To laugh often and love much;

to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children;

to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends;

to appreciate beauty;

to find the best in others;

to give of one’s self;

to leave the world a bit better, whether ... by a healthy child ... a garden patch or ... a redeemed social condition;

to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation;

to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived – this is to have succeeded.

- B A Stanley, 1904
(though often attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson)



Yoda was wrong - there is 'try'. Try allows us to overcome the insurmountable, acquire the unattainable, and achieve the impossible. In short, it allows us to grow beyond commonly accepted limits.

- Tlobed Lechim



[T]he one great principle of ... law is to make business for itself.

- Charles Dickens, Describing the legal profession's corrupting influence on Jarndyce v. Jarndyce, the central case in the novel Bleak House.














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