The [next] priority for change the first element of a new politics for the United States is in our policy toward the world. Too much and for too long, we have acted as if our great military might and wealth could bring about an American solution to every world problem.

Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain

I dream of things that are not and ask why not.

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.

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. 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.