For me, the dead remain dead. If I couldn't believe that, I don't think I could go on living.
Increase your word power. Words are the raw material of our craft.
The modern holy trinity is money, sex and celebrity.
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.
Wars may be fought by decent men, but they're not won by them.
Murder is the unique crime, the only one for which we can never make reparation to the victim.