In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.

...the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.

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

But history will judge you, and as the years pass, you will ultimately judge yourself, in the extent to which you have used your gifts and talents to lighten and enrich the lives of your fellow men. In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfillment of the best qualities of your own spirit.

Courage is the most important attribute of a lawyer.

What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.

I believe that as long as a single man may try, any unjustifiable barrier against his efforts is a barrier against mankind.