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

Courage is the most important attribute of a lawyer. It is more important than competence or vision. It can never be an elective in any law school. It can never be de-limited, dated or outworn, and it should pervade the heart, the halls of justice and the chambers of the mind.

I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the world.

Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.

You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.

There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change the world which yields most painfully to change.