There was this whole emotion of despair, this incapacity to understand that humanity could ever do something like this, but there was also this immense gratitude that we were able to help.

Emotions are what make us human. Make us real. The word 'emotion' stands for energy in motion. Be truthful about your emotions, and use your mind and emotions in your favor, not against yourself.

In the courtroom for the last six months, I didn't see much emotion at all. When I looked over there, it was a blank stare,

It's great to go and do 20 cases, but in the bigger picture, you are really not changing things.

Some of the dialogue online reaches levels of sophistication you'd never hear in class.

February 13, 1936
I ask of people more than they can give me. It is useless to maintain the contrary. But what a mistake and what despair. And myself perhaps...

Seek contacts. All contacts. If I want to write about men, should I stop talking about the countryside? If the sky or light attract me, shall I forget the eyes or voices of those I love? Each time I am given the elements of a friendship, the fragments of an emotion, never the emotion or the friendship itself.