There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want.

Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty.

One unrepaired broken window is a signal that no one cares, and so breaking more windows costs nothing.

Public order is a fragile thing, and if you don't fix the first broken window, soon all the windows will be broken.

I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom.

In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.

A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism.

But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government

Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.

What most needs explanation is not why some people are criminals, but why most people are not.

There are no more liberals Theyve all been mugged.

I had never confronted my parents with the true feelings I had for them, and I had certainly never expressed the depth of my feeling for my mother, being too selfish to try when I should have.

Forgiveness is a comfort, but it doesn't bring back what you lost

He spoke slowly, his voice deeper and louder, every word tacked nine-inches deep into the beams of our minds.

Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.

The very essence of all power to influence lies in getting the other person to participate. The mind that can do that has a powerful leverage on his human world.

I’m like America ” he said. Stephanie swung around to look at him unnerved. “What are you talking about ” she said. “Are you off your meds ” “Our hands are dirty ” Jules said.

I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.

As we start looking for the good, our focus automatically is taken off the bad.

All romances end at marriage.

Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way.