Quotations

"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser – in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough."

~ The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume II, "Notes for a Law Lecture" (July 1, 1850?), p. 81.

"We can never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was 'legal' and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was 'illegal.'"

~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

"He that is his own lawyer has a fool for a client.”

~ Proverb

"Never underestimate your power to change yourself. Never overestimate your power to change others." 

~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place.” 

~ Lao-tzu, Tao Te Ching

"Contemplation is the highest form of activity."

~ Aristotle

"Circumstances don't make a man, they reveal him."

~ Wayne W. Dyer

"An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie…"

~ Alexander Pope

 “Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company."

~ George Washington

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” 

~ Richard Steele

"[N]either believe nor reject any thing because any other person, or description of persons have rejected or believed it. Your own reason is the only oracle given you…"

~ Thomas Jefferson

"The ancestor to every action is a thought."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When the student is ready, the teacher will appear."

~ Zen proverb