I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.

You get a lawyer whether you’re in a military tribunal or whether you’re in a federal court, number one. The attorney general decided that the court with the biggest – with the greatest venue, with the best jurisdiction was the New York court. That was the right decision to make.

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

I love being in a courtroom.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

Not a law firm in the entire city of New York bid for my employment as a lawyer when I earned my degree.

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

A good lawyer is going to try to protect her client.

I got a chain letter by fax. It’s very simple. You just fax a dollar bill to everybody on the list.

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

They say cats have nine lives. I’ve had 12 already and I don’t know how many more I’ll have.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle.

Writing is a solitary experience. I’m extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It’s so intimate, I can’t even share it with my wife.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out.

The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of her votaries are Ignorance, Superstition, and Persecution.

The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.

I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I’m doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.

I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It’s a battle you can’t hope to win – it’s a battle that’s going to go on forever. It’s part of the human condition.

The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if it’s just a few notes in a file. I dread not having work in progress.

As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs.

Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer’s avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

I didn’t tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I thought if I told people, it wouldn’t happen. So I kept it all in my head for years and years.

My lawyer has been a good friend of mine for a long time. He and I continuously have conversations.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

I love our daughters more than anything in the world – more than life itself. And while that may not be the first thing that some folks want to hear from an Ivy-league-educated lawyer, it is truly who I am. So for me, being Mom-in-Chief is, and always will be, job number one.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

I was tremendously fortunate to be alive and a lawyer, working at a university so I had more flexible hours, when the women’s movement was coming alive and when it became possible to argue successfully for a view of the equal protection clause that included women.

I say this everywhere I go: I admire and respect Hillary. She has been a lawyer, a law professor, First Lady of Arkansas, First Lady of the United States, a U.S. Senator, Secretary of State.