Ken O'Brien

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• September 2, 1999, on Avoiding Litigation:

  I've been a litigator for 23 years. The best advice I can give to people who are victims of wrongful behavior at the hands of another is that they should ask themself if the American civil justice system will give them what they want or expect. So that their wants and expectations can be immediately dashed, let me point out that the only thing the civil justice system can deliver is money. You will not get an apology, you will not get your health [or whatever] back, and your life will not be the same as before you were wronged. At most, you will get a check after your lawyer deducts fees and costs. And then, I guarantee you that it will be less money than you want or expect and that it will come to you so slowly that your next company paid six-week vacation to [fill in the name of some place you have never been to but think is exotic because you don't know any better] will come sooner. If that is what you are willing to tie yourself up in knots for, have at it and bless you. For ...

• September 7, 1999, on Money, Money, Money:

  I keep two quotes prominently displayed above my desk to help me out when I am stricken with a bout of "Materialism": (1) "If you would make a man happy, study not to augment his goods; but to diminish his wants."--Orestes Brownson, 1864. (2) "Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters in life begin when you get what you want."--Irving Kristol, 1983.