As a society we're always so quick and able to spend money on lawyers for someone for incarceration, but we don't make the corresponding commitment to the preventative components of it.

I represented many of these kids as they become young adults in the criminal justice system when I was a public defender. One way of reaching out is by the mind of experimentation.

If you run for mayor, people say you're being egotistical. If you decide you won't run for mayor, people say you're being self-centered and egotistical.

I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately.

You don't have to be wealthy to run for mayor. I'm a Green Party candidate running for mayor and I'm being taken seriously.

As a young boy I won a few dollars in 1972 when Riva Ridge won the Kentucky Derby. I had overheard someone say he was going to win, and I guess that made an impression on me.

If you engage people honestly, and you're willing to do the leg work, people will respond to that.

If you are doing well, your business will pay more in tax; if you're not doing well, you pay less.

I really am disappointed when I run into people who are angry I'm leaving office.

I don't think the schools are getting as much money as they should.

When in some communities selling drugs is so lucrative that that's a pretty big enticement that we have to break down. Part of that is by making opportunities and paying decent wages.

Adventure is a way of worthy life.

Success or failure in your work and relationships is dependent on how you manage your feelings.

Azhrarn the Beautiful, " said Chuz lovingly, "it is your beautiful madness I have come to see.

Real love when it comes, it doesn't look like anything you'd expect.

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.

I try to have no plans the failure of which would greatly annoy me. Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans which were never reasonable, and often impossible.

At a certain point, I got used to writing on demand. I developed a habit of writing like I hired myself! I also like to write about things that affect me emotionally.

A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.

It seems impossible for a man to learn the value of money without first having to learn to waste it.