You can't tell parents to teach children the value of work when we don't have jobs and the jobs we have don't pay a decent wage. You can't tell children to achieve and then let them go to broken-down schools with teachers who don't care. We need a consistency of values in our public, corporate, and private lives.

I'm tough in the sense that I believe as strongly in what I'm doing as anybody else believes in what they are doing.

No time is ever wasted if you have a book along as a companion.

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.

Democracy cannot breathe, indeed will die, if those enjoined to protect it and uphold the laws snuff it out - with no consequences.

If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.