The advocate can make no greater mistake than to ignore or attempt to conceal the weak points in his case.

The most effective strategy is at an early stage of th e argument to invite attention to your weakest point before the court has discov ered it, then to meet it with the best answers at your disposal, to deal with al l the remaining points with equal candor, and to end with as powerful a presenta tion of your strongest point as you are capable of making. -Justice Robert H. J ackson, America's Advocate: Robert H. Jackson, Ch. 24, 1958. Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguis hes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admira tion of fools. -Sir Richard Steele, Many Thoughts of Many Minds. Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious. -George Orwell Once writing over what we design to remember, and giving due attention to what w e write, will fix it more in the mind than reading it five times. -Isaac Watts, Improvement of the Mind, Chapter 11. I am not afraid of being charged, as I frequently am, of trying to frighten you, for I am definitely trying to do so. If the wondrous love of God in Christ Jesu s and the hope of glory is not sufficient to attract you, then, such is the valu e I attach to the worth of your soul, I will do my utmost to alarm you with a si ght of the terrors of hell. -Martyn Lloyd-Jones Work expands to fill the time available for its completion. -C. Northcote Parki nson I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter t o the world. -Mother Teresa Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest. -Book of Common Prayer The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in havin g new eyes. -Marcel Proust Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode , because we are made: and not only made, but made in the image and likeness of a Maker. -J. R. R. Tolkien, On Fairy-Stories, 1939. No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fac t better serve other purposes, philological or historical, when it is studied fo r love, for itself. -J. R. R. Tolkien, English and Welsh, 1955. As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust. Be a fountain, not a drain. -Rex Hudler, Sports Illustrated. Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries . -Corita Kent Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it. -Spanish Pro verb You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivet. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover. -Henri Matisse Common sense and education are highly compatible in fact, neither is worth much without the other. -Donald G. Smith It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone. . . . The aim o f the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment. -W. Edwards Deming The church is a tender plant. It must be watched. People hear a couple of sermon s, scan a few pages of Holy Writ, and think they know it all. They are bold beca use they have never gone through any trials of faith. Void of the Holy Spirit, t hey teach what they please as long as it sounds good to the common people who ar e ever ready to join something new. -Martin Luther, Commentary on Galatians. There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to dou bt everything; both ways save us from thinking. -Alfred Korzybski I wanted to write this novel in the first person, and in the present tense. The novel gets to say we're present tense here, and yet we can read the present over and over again. Which is quite a nice thing to do, we'd all be better off if we could not stop time but slow it down a little bit, and live the pleasant things

more pleasantly and live the incautious things more cautiously. -Richard Ford, Writersalmanac.org, Feb. 16, 2009. The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure withou t conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice. -Mahatma Ga ndhi A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people. -Will Rogers Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartedness that requires the true courage -- however often we are hurt as a result of it. -Erica Jong, How t o Save Your Own Life, 1977. Do good, no matter to whom. -Italian Proverb Faces are as legible as books, only they are read in much less time, and are muc h less likely to deceive us. -Lavater Let a good man do good deeds with the same zeal that the evil man does bad ones. -The Belzer Rabbi Can a man who's warm understand one who's freezing? -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, On e Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, 1962. Look for the ridiculous in everything, and you will find it. -Jules Renard We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it. -Jules Renard Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of ot hers. --Jules Renard Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. -Jules Renard If I were to begin life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more. -Jules Renard God does not believe in our God. -Jules Renard There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune. -Jules Renard On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. -Jules Renard There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened. -Jules Re nard Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock. -Jules Renard I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries. -Jules Renard