A nation that can't remember its dead will soon cease to be worth dying for.

If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.

All these problems [deciding cases] are easier for people who believe in God. Those of us who don't or can't have to do the best we can. That's what the law is, the best we can do. Human justice is imperfect, but it's the only justice we have.

It is difficult to be generous-minded to those we have greatly harmed.

Write what you need to write, not what is currently popular or what you think will sell.

If all power corrupts, then a doctor, who literally holds life and death in his hands, must be at particular risk.

Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure.