I am a law student in my first year at the law, and there are many moments when I am simply a mess.

On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.

I cannot think of a day in my life when the library didn’t exert a potent attraction for me, offering a sense of the specialness of each individual’s curiosity and his or her quest to satisfy it.

The law, for all its failings, has a noble goal - to make the little bit of life that people can actually control more just. We can't end disease or natural disasters, but we can devise rules for our dealings with one another that fairly weigh the rights and needs of everyone, and which, therefore, reflect our best vision of ourselves.

Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it.

The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author.

At the end of the day, perhaps the best argument against capital punishment may be that it is an issue beyond the limited capacity of government to get things right.