If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without.

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.

Were there a Christian so faithful to his God as I was to her we would all be Jesus Christ today.

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

We are all guilty of crime the great crime of not living life to the full. But we are all potentially free. We can stop thinking of what we have failed to do and do whatever lies within our power. What those powers that are in us may be no one has truly dared to imagine. That they are infinite we will realize the day we admit to ourselves that imagination is everything. Imagination is the voice of daring.

To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.

Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies.