The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.

Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.

A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.

I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man -- public opinion.

I am pleading for the future; I am pleading for a time when hatred and cruelty will not control the hearts of men. When we can learn by, reason and judgment and understanding and faith that all life is worth saving, and that mercy is the highest attribute of man.