The law is a horrible business.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become president. I'm beginning to believe it.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.

I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate

I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.

I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it.

Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

Every man or woman is born to be a Hero!

...your antagonist is a hero in their own mind... p.192

One man in his time plays many parts.

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Fukushima is the most terrifying situation I can imagine.

My hope when I wrote the first book was that I would get to do it again. But it was not entirely clear that that would happen.

Somebody loves us, too - God Himself. We have been created to love and to be loved

What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers of bureaucrats.

We thought the hard part was over—but we were wrong. Living is the hardest part. Figuring out how to live your life when you’re all busted up inside and out—there is nothing harder.

Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.