Nearly all inmates are drawn from the ranks of the powerless and the poor. A child of privilege frequently receives the benefit of the doubt; a child of poverty seldom does.

My esteem in this country has gone up substantially. It is very nice now when people wave at me, they use all their fingers.

The world is safer without Saddam [Hussein]. Certainly the people of Iraq are better without Saddam.

When combined, the small individual contributors of caring, friendship, forgiveness, and love, each of us different from our next-door neighbors, can form a phalanx, an army, with great capability.

I have never been happier, more exhilarated, at peace, rested, inspired, and aware of the grandeur of the universe and the greatness of God than when I find myself in a natural setting not much changed from the way He made it.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

Always I'm working on some of book. That's the way I make a living.