Whenever society begins to create policies and laws rooted in fear and anger, there will be abuse and injustice.

You ultimately judge the civility of a society not by how it treats the rich, the powerful, the protected and the highly esteemed, but by how it treats the poor, the disfavored and the disadvantaged.

We have a system of justice in [the US] that treats you much better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent. Wealth, not culpability, shapes outcomes.

You don’t change the world with the ideas in your mind, but with the conviction in your heart.

Somebody has to stand when other people are sitting. Somebody has to speak when other people are quiet.

The opposite of poverty is not wealth. I don't believe that. I actually think, in too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice.

The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned.

Each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done.

We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we have the highest incarceration rate in the world.

I don't think there's been a time in American history with more innocent people in prison.

Always do the right thing even when the right thing is the hard thing

Always ensure to keep focus on what you desire and not what others want you to focus upon.

My silence doesn't mean I don't know what goes around me, but what goes around me don't deserve my words.

The modern composer is a madman who persists in manufacturing an article which nobody wants.

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.

Moral #1: "If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life." Moral #2: Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.

Nobody's born rotten. You just don't have bad kids. It's not true. There is no such thing. But we can make them bad.

I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer.

I think they [Judy Blume comics] are so different from the Dr. Strange ones are so different from the other, from the other comics which is nice.

Nobody has ever seen an electron. Nor a thought. You can't see a thought, you can't measure, weigh, nor taste it- but thoughts are the most real things in the Galaxy.

Selfless acts are a source of profound meaning for your self and your life.