We don't know if capital punishment is a deterrent, but we know that men we execute will not murder again.

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.

A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults

Friendship and money: oil and water.

Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.

I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them.

Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.

Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .

What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

He would ask nothing else from life if he would be allowed to protect and cherish her for the rest of his.

When men are ruled by fear they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.

I wouldnt want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.

Radical obedience always gives priority to what God has said over what He hasn't said.

One cannot make oneself, but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else. It is well.

I consider it one of the greatest accomplishments of my life that I have learned to sing.

I had to go. A spirit in my feet said 'go,' and I went.

The truly wise man is he who always believes the Bible against the opinions of any man.

Aye, you white dog, you are like all your race; but to a black man gold can never pay for blood.

It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them.