1. "Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have."
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John Grisham, The Rainmaker
2. "Some people have more guts than brains."
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John Grisham, The Rainmaker
3. "I'm alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I'm right."
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John Grisham, The Rainmaker
4. "I don't feel stupid, just inadequate. After three years of studying the law, I'm very much aware of how little I know."
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John Grisham, The Rainmaker
5. "Please give me fifty more years of work and fun, then an instant death when I'm sleeping."
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John Grisham, The Rainmaker
6. "A battered wife is a married woman until she gets a divorce. Or until she kills the bastard."
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John Grisham, The Rainmaker
7. "All students enter law school with a certain amount of idealism and desire to serve the public, but after three years of brutal competition we care for nothing but the right job with the right firm where we can make partner in seven years and earn big bucks."
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John Grisham, The Rainmaker
8. "The coffee arrives, and we backslide into what lawyers do best---talking about other lawyers."
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John Grisham, The Rainmaker
9. "He's my client, and he's counting on me. I'll take him, warts and all."
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John Grisham, The Rainmaker
10. "life is too short to despise people who simply can't help what they've done."
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John Grisham, The Rainmaker