All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prison as to innocent untroubled sleep.

And real nobility (that of the heart) is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.

We don't have the time to completely be ourselves. We only have the room to be happy.

Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.

There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues.