The haters can just keep hating but I'm certainly not stopping because of them. But I can't say it doesn't hurt. It hurts a great deal. It hurts very much.

After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.

I always thought that was one of the single most important things a prosecutor could do is to seek justice for the families of victims.

I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.

I think the truth is black-and-white .

I don't expect everybody to like me. If you try to please everybody, by changing your position and your personality, every time you do that you lose a little bit of yourself.

I was in the courtroom prosecuting violent felonies for well over a decade.

I don't like juries having the wool pulled over their eyes. I don't think that's what the Constitution is about.

Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.

I'm all about the crockpot.

I think all politicians lie.

The path of development is a journey of discovery that is clear only in retrospect, and it’s rarely a straight line.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

The life which is unexamined is not worth living.

Daily life is always extraordinary when rendered precisely.

When we have a brilliant idea, instead of making others think it is ours, why not let them cook and stir the idea themselves.

There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.

Change is the only constant.

Today I have a choice. I can resist reality and suffer pain or peacefully accept what I cannot change.

A bookman’s love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them.

We are on the precipice of being so ignorant that our democracy is threatened.