It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment

For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.

The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful.

Laws against the possession of weapons only disarm those who have no intention of committing a crime.

The fault no child ever loses is the one he was most punished for.

Happy is the nation without a history.

The laws that forbid the carrying of arms... serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

happy is the nation without a history

The greatest happiness of the greatest number.

I myself owe everything to French books. They developed in my soul the sentiments of humanity which had been stifled by eight years of fanatical and servile education.

Anyone can choose to have success, but only the patient ones will get rewarded by it. Be relentless in chasing your dreams.

The heart power once engaged and awakened is capable of achieving and realising the things to make your life wonderful.

It's very hard to write music for a film because you're writing about somebody else's experience.

Please forgive me, I know not what I do. Please forgive me, I can't stop loving you.

Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book that could change our lives.

All that is contrary to love and peace is of the Fiend and of his part.

Opportunity does not always knock twice. You have to make some of your own opportunities and you have to go in and grab those.

Our consciences take no notice of pain inflicted on others until it reaches a point where it gives pain to us.

My name is only an anagram of toilets.

When we change the message of God, we change the God of the message.