I have inquired for most of my adult life, about studies that might show that the death penalty is a deterrent, and I have not seen any research that would substantiate that point.

Everybody should want to make sure that we have the cyber tools necessary to investigate cyber crimes, and to be prepared to defend against them and to bring people to justice who commit it.

I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature but that I could ask for it when I was satisfied as to guilt.

The good lawyer is the great salesman.

Just remember, strength and courage. If you stand on principle, you'll never lose.

I made the decision long ago that to be afraid would be to diminish my life.

Until the day I die, or until the day I can't think anymore, I want to be involved in the issues that I care about.

Haters are cowards. When confronted they often back down. We must resist haters.

People have it so good in America that they get bored very easily. And when people get bored they start protesting things.

I just try to do my best and make the best judgments I can.

They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.

May you fill your days with love, laughter, and joy.

And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.

If you have nothing good to say about anyone, come and sit with me.

Does the devil know he is a devil?

The two parts of technology that lower the threshold for activism and technology is the Internet and the mobile phone. Anyone who has a cause can now mobilize very quickly.

If you can't sleep at night because of your stock market position, then you have gone too far. If this is the case, then sell your position down to the sleeping level.

He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.

There is no such thing as failure for an artist, unless failure is the refusal to attempt, the unwillingness to dream.

Immorality, I know. Immortality, I cannot judge.

I think I'm really lucky that the things I'm able to love - people, animals - it's like the more you put yourself into it, the more you get out of it.