I would strongly recommend any young man to stay away from criminal law. It's not a good place to be, unfortunately.

The people I have no feeling for are professional killers. But I count that man no worse than a governor who won't commute a death sentence because it's unpolitical.

I get paid for seeing that my clients have every break the law allows. I have knowingly defended a number of guilty men. But the guilty never escape unscathed. My fees are sufficient punishment for anyone.

I enjoy personal injury cases. I've tried quite a few of those. And, frankly, any kind of litigation that is trouble-shooting, whether it's equities, suits and injunctions, or whatever.

Each lawyer makes somebody unhappy either by beating him, embarrassing him or tying him in knots.

A person in the business of defending criminal cases is going to live in controversy all of his or her life.

Fear is something you have to throw into a corner. Constantly. Because it never goes away.