"Being somebody who wants to be religious doesn't make me perfect and doesn't make me necessarily any better than anybody else. It maybe makes me better than I would have been if I didn't have that level."

"Access is vital in lobbying. If you can't get in your door, you can't make your case."

"I know I'm intellectually capable of finding a series of things and making hundreds of millions. I have to get there and do it. Carefully. Legally."

"As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend."

"Wisdom principle 40 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 26."

"Unrest of spirit is a mark of life."

"A life well-lived is a testament that the most profound truths are found in silence."

"We look before and after, And pine for what is not Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought."