The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present

Courage is the most important attribute of a lawyer.

Only those who have the courage to fail greatly achieve greatly.

Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.

What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness; but love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or they be black.

All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.

The Gross National Product measures everything except that which makes life worthwhile.