There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

We're not a democracy. It's a terrible misunderstandin g and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we're a plutocracy: a government by the wealthy.

The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.

A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.

The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.

Islam is the only religion that gives dignity to the poor.

People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go.

This country of ours has committed the most serious act of aggression in its history by engaging in a war of aggression without a declaration of war by Congress.

Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?

The great and constant need of those who investigate homicide and practice forensic pathology or criminal law is a warm humanism.

Violence is the ultimate human degradation.

Look for something good in each person, even if for some people you have to look a little harder.

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.

Do I appreciate the idea of jealousy, revenge and all these so-called dark qualities? Yes. Do I write these songs in order to engage in some public war with someone? No.

The true masters of the art of living are already happy.

Excellence Matters. Excellent people. Excellent vision. Excellent marketing. Excellent strategies.

Deepak Chopra, look at him. He's probably the most successful self-help guru in the world. I don't think he's struggling for any marketing or exposure. You've just got to know where your audience is.

Act because you love to act.

I certainly believe that creativity must be an experience. If I'm to steal time away from people, we should give them something to react to.

Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never have happened and couldn't possibly have happened.

The last freedom is choosing your attitude.