"No other profession is subject to the public contempt and derision that sometimes befalls lawyers. the bitter fruit of public incomprehension of the law itself and its dynamics."

“I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you Which shall be the darkness of God. . . . So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”

“When I speak of the aspiration towards the beautiful, of the ideal as the ultimate aim of art, which grows from a yearning for that ideal, I am not for a moment suggesting that art should shun the 'dirt' of the world. On the contrary! the artistic image is always a metonym, where one thing is substituted for another, the smaller for the greater. To tell of what is living, the artist uses something dead; to speak of the infinite, he shows the finite. Substitution... the infinite cannot be made into matter, but it is possible to create an illusion of the infinite: the image.”

“Someone has said the best nursing home is the U.S. Senate.”

“I'm always looking for new ways to spread my creative wings.”

Source : Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

“Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular.”

Source : Lisa Lutz (2011). “The Spellmans Strike Again: Document #4”, p.363, Simon and Schuster

“When we apologize we end our struggle with history.”

Source : John Kador (2009). “Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust”, p.173, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

“The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.”

“We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.”