Yoichiro Okumura Quotes & Sayings

I do not believe in the court system, at least I do not think it is especially good at finding the truth. No lawyer does. We have all seen too many mistakes, too many bad results. A jury verdict is just a guess - a well-intentioned guess, generally, but you simply cannot tell fact from fiction by taking a vote. And yet, despite all that, I do believe in the power of the ritual. I believe in the religious symbolism, the black robes, the marble-columned courthouses like Greek temples. When we hold a trial, we are saying a mass. We are praying together to do what is right and to be protected from danger, and that is worth doing whether or not our prayers are actually heard. — William Landay

Richard," Kahlan said, "what about Siddin? Weselan and Savidlin will be worried sick over him." Her green eyes gazed deep into his. She leaned closer, and whispered, "And we have unfinished business in the spirit house. I believe there is still an apple there we have yet to finish." Her arm tightened around his waist, and a little twist of a smile came to her lips. The shape of the smile caught his breath in his throat. — Terry Goodkind

Love is stupid. It has nothing to do with reason. You love whomever you love. — Kristin Cashore

The Lord does not so much look at the work that is done, as at the faithfulness of our hearts in doing it. — Jeremiah Burroughs

Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject. — Jamie Wyeth

A great mind is a good sailor, as a great heart is. — Ralph Waldo Emerson