After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society. 633
Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure – they can be turned into wisdom. 808
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. 635
The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought. 2.04K
The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it. 1.39K
In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do – and not only for operating, but for everything. 769
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. 658
Spending two years on my uncle’s ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns. 685
I’m very accepting with my age. It’s like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you’ve become comfortable in your skin. 2.5K
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out. 668
Wisdom alone is true ambition’s aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed. 730
