federal judge
on the United States Court of Federal Claims
, who was appointed a judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims
by Ronald Reagan
on July 11, 1985 and entered duty on September 12, 1985. He was designated Chief Judge on January 14, 1986, also by President Reagan. After serving 15 years as Chief Judge, Judge Smith took senior status
on July 11, 2000.
Judge Smith earned his B.A. (1966) and J.D. (1969) from Northwestern University
and Northwestern University School of Law
, respectively.
He served as the University of Denver
College of Law’s first Distinguished Jurist-in-Residence.
One has to reach to the absolute state of awareness: that is Zen|Zen. You cannot do it every morning for a few minutes or for half an hour and then forget all about it. It has to become like your heartbeat. You have to sit in it, you have to walk in it. Yes, you have even to sleep in it. 
I am the rich man's guru.
I have never been a celibate. If people believe so, that is their foolishness. I have always loved women – and perhaps more women than anybody else. You can see my beard: it has become grey so quickly because I have lived so intensely that I have compressed almost two hundred years into fifty.
It is not decided by votes what is true; otherwise we could never come to any truth, ever. People will vote for what is comfortable – and lies are very comfortable because you don't have to do anything about them, you just have to believe. Truth needs great effort, discovery, risk, and it needs you to walk alone on a path that nobody has traveled before.