Instead, our system of "corrections" is about arm's-length revenge and retribution, all day and all night. Then its overseers wonder why people leave prison more broken than when they went in.

When you are deep in misery, you reach out to those who can help, people who can understand.

From a young age I had learned to get over--to cover my tracks emotionally, to hide or ignore my problems in the belief that they were mine alone to solve.

We were never friends. Not for a second. I loved you.

Do you have to find the evil in yourself in order to truly recognize it in the world?

Maybe, because all these good people loved me enough to help me, maybe I wasn't quite as bad as I felt. Maybe there was a part of me that was worthy of their love.

Don't tell me what to do - you have eight numbers after your name just like me.

We have a racially based justice system that overpunishes, fails to rehabilitate, and doesn't make us safer.

I need to stop running back to you in my mind all the time.

You must show the world that you are a chosen generation

Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.

Your first problem is relying on someone else's word. Always depend on yourself. No one will work as hard for you as you will.

Dangerous climate change... It's important not to be alarmist but it is very important to be alarmed

Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.

Go and walk with Nature; thou wilt find Full many a gem in her enchanted cup.

We will have a border that is open for business, open for tourism, open for legitimate travelers; but that is closed to terrorists and drug pushers and smugglers and others who seek to break the law.

Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.

To me, there was no better drummer than Jeff Porcaro. His musicianship and kindness to me will never be forgotten. Our loss is heaven's gain