Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past.

To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed.

People in our culture have a morbid tendency to avoid blame, because they do not wish to take the trouble to change their conduct in any way: blame-avoidance and blame-transference are therefore endemic amongst us. These are substitutes for repentance and renewal.

The tragedy of man is what dies inside himself while he still lives.

Life is adversarial; there is opposition—opposition in all things. . . Law — and life — is a fight, a battleground. The fight is real, and you are right in the middle of it. I quote from Ephesians 6:12: “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” You are in a profession that is adversarial, and you will be fighting the fight, and we believe and expect you to be able to do it. Don’t forget the battle is real. Continue to learn, to serve, and to remember and appreciate what you have been given here to enable you to do it.

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous and conflicting information.

He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of the heart, and that is softness of the head.

You can't live principles you can't understand.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.