America may be slow to rise to a challenge. But our history has shown that once we make up our minds to really do something, nothing can stand in our way.

You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest.

If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.

We've got to stop focusing solely on the symptoms of crime, and start caring about the causes as well.

Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.

Until we all start to take responsibility, until we do all we can to improve the character of our communities, we'll never break the cycle of violence and indifference.

Remembered pain tightened his mouth into a grim line. The weeks he’d spent looking for her had left permanent scars on his heart.

Where's your will to be weird?

Religion! O Diabole! Fie, I am asham'd, however that I seem, To think a word of such simple sound, Of such great matter should be made the ground.

I don't think I'm really a rude person, but now I see myself on television, I think, 'Oh, God, that is a bit strong.' And I wonder if I've always been like that and I haven't been aware of it.

In Rome, the emperor sat in a special part of the Colosseum called the Caesarian Section.

There is a language beyond human language, an elemental language, one that arises from the land itself.

It is always better to imitate a successful man than to envy him.

Amiability is very often a weakness, but the most unobjectionable one as a rule.

I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society

When the heart is right, "for" and "against" are forgotten.