Dear Governor Whitman, … Our father is not a simple criminal. … He was harassed by more ideas than his mind could stand. …

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. - Eighth Amendment, United States Constitution

What to do now, Father? I am going to die like a killer, and I do not even remember killing.”“You can pray, my son. You are in the hands of God now, ” said the good priest.

What you are about to witness is a blot upon the civilization of the twentieth century."- Sing Sing Deputy Warden Spencer Miller, Addressing Antonio Pontón’s execution witnesses on January 7, 1916

On Thanksgiving Day, during our family gathering, we pray you to have mercy on Antonio Pontón …

Pardon me for this resolution … I know that this will be a disgrace that I bring to my people, but I cannot help it. Love is the blame for it. I go in peace ... pray for me ... good-bye all.

¡Hundieron el Maine!” said Manuel to his wife Etervina, as he read the newspaper on February 16, 1898. “They sank the Maine!

Manuel acquired as much land as he could afford and refused to sell it to anyone, even if he was not planting anything on it. “La tierra no se acaba” (“the land does not perish”), he often said.

Antonio’s will was cursed. Not once, but twice.

Bravery usually looked stupid from the outside.

We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do.

Moments are history. If you have enough of them, they become a story.

I'm not funny in person. I mean I'm really not. I'm one of those people who always screw up anecdotes.

I've learned that you can't make someone love you. All you can do is stalk them and hope they'll panic and give in.

Keep dating and you will become so sick, so badly crippled, so deformed, so emotionally warped and mentally defective that you will marry anybody.

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

Sometimes things change, because there just isn’t any way for them to stay the same.

Because I believe that the future of the music lies in the Internet. It can be sold on the Internet.

I really think we need more women to lean into their careers and to be really dedicated to staying in the work force.