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I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.

On January 10, 1963, I was sworn in as a lawyer, so next January 10 I will have practiced law for 40 years, and I've loved every minute of it.

One of the things I was taught in law school is that I'd never be able to think the same again - that being a lawyer is something that's part of who I am as an individual now.

I think the law changes, which is a nice luxury.

I thought I wanted to be a lawyer and was going through this growth phase.

I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.

I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.

The law seemed to be always what I came back to. I have never, one day in my life as a lawyer, regretted my decision to become a lawyer.

The law as a profession has provided me with more satisfaction than I ever dreamed.

I studied to be a lawyer, and after that I did something, obviously, completely different. With change, you learn something. If you do the same thing over and over again, you never learn anything.