The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

I bought a company in the mid-’90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I’ve made lots of dumb decisions. That’s part of the game.

If you call yourself a leader, then you have to be decisive. If you’re decisive, then you have the chance to be a leader. These are two sides to the same coin.

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‚Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?‘ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

More law, less justice.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

I thought ‚Heller‘ was a very bad decision.

Nobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

I’ve never gone wrong trusting my gut.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

And whether you’re an honest man, or whether you’re a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

I make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‚Let me order.‘ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‚Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.‘ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.

Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

If you’re a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

You do the policy, I’ll do the politics.

If I think too hard about a relationship, I’ll talk myself out of it.

You can’t have a value structure without a hierarchy. They’re the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another.

If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the ‚right‘ thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It’s like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.