We're all killers at heart . . . . I have never taken anybody's life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.

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.

As a boy, reading was my religion. It helped me to discover my soul. Later, writing helped me to record its journey.

The rosary is a weapon against depression and hopelessness.

Death forerunneth Love to win "Sweetest eyes were ever seen."

I grew up in environment that had more women in science.

He who wrongs the innocent must bear the fruit of his act, like dust flung against the wind.

We must define flattery and praise; they are distinct. Trajan was encouraged to virtue by the panegyric Pliny; Tiberius became obstinate in vice from the flattery of his senators.

Yet only when we come to understand, in the light of the Cross, the evil we are capable of, and have even been a part of, can we experience true remorse and true repentance.

To say that George Lucas cannot write a love scene is an understatement; greeting cards have expressed more passion.

Patience accomplishes its object, while hurry speeds to its ruin.

Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option.