To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

It is an anomaly that we can split the atom, but we are nearly powerless to persuade each other to embrace justice.

When you are faced with prejudice, logic and justice are impotent. Still, we may have an obligation to argue directly into the face of the prejudice, even though there is no chance to win.

Once slavery in America was not seen as radical. It became, instead, a revolutionary idea that slaves should be freed. When we have lived under a pernicious power long enough, no matter how oppressive, we grow so accustomed to the yoke that its removal seems frightening, even wrong.

The art of arguing is the art of living. We argue because we must, because life emends it, because, in the end, life itself is but an argument.

We must begin to train lawyers the minute they walk into law school to tell the truth. They must immediately begin to learn the business of representing people. They must be assigned cases the first day.

Nothing in the world is as fearsome as a bloody, battered opponent who will never surrender.