"Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end."

"It is a subtle truth that every season of life has its own unique blossom, if only we take care to notice — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a quiet truth that he who conquers his inner doubts has already won half the war."

"It is a subtle truth that justice is the harmonious balance between individual liberty and collective good."

"New Age values are conscious evolution, a non-sectarian society, a non-military culture, global sharing, healing the environment, sustainable economies, self-determination, social justice, economic empowerment of the poor, love, compassion in action, going beyond religious fundamentalism, going beyond nationalism-extreme nationalism, culture."

"When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant, it is terribly important that you look up at the bench and feel that that person represents you and will understand you, that that person is reflective of our community and of our society."

"Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity."

"But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed."