Sleeping judges.

The end of the year is a time for an accounting ; what happened that is good, what happened that is not so good.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

In the struggle between the stone and the water, in time, the water wins. -Chinese proverb      

The president of any organization gets an overview of what is happening. This year we are losing two members of our Board of Governors who cannot run again because of age or term limitations.

  There is a destiny that makes us brothers, none goes this way alone 
All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own —Anon.

I began my year as president of the Illinois State Bar Association by saying I would start no new programs.

I am writing my first column as president of the Illinois State Bar Association. As I promised at the ISBA Annual Meeting, there are no new programs.