For me, the dead remain dead. If I couldn't believe that, I don't think I could go on living.

You never forget the people who were kind to you in childhood, do you, sir?

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.

A letter is paradoxically the most revealing and the most deceptive of confessional revelations. We all have our inconsistencies, prejudices, irrationalities which, although strongly felt at the time, may be transitory. A letter captures the mood of the moment. The transitory becomes immutably fixed, part of the evidence for the prosecution or the defence.

There are few couples as unhappy as those who are too proud to admit their unhappiness.

But what do you believe? I don't just mean religion. What are you sure of?" "That once I was not and that now I am. That one day I shall no longer be.

you'd like the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. That must be the most futile oath anyone ever swears.