It's hard for me to believe someone could harm a child.

After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.

I always thought that was one of the single most important things a prosecutor could do is to seek justice for the families of victims.

I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.

I think the truth is black-and-white .

I don't expect everybody to like me. If you try to please everybody, by changing your position and your personality, every time you do that you lose a little bit of yourself.

I was in the courtroom prosecuting violent felonies for well over a decade.

I don't like juries having the wool pulled over their eyes. I don't think that's what the Constitution is about.

Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.

I'm all about the crockpot.

I think all politicians lie.

If I talk about her like she’s a beingIt’s because talking about her I need to use the language of menWhich gives personality to things, And imposes a name on things.

Book after book, I get hooked, every time the writer talks to me like a friend.

Wherever there are sinners, the weak, the sorrowful, the poor in the world, that is where God goes.

I expect to get paid if I do something.

History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.

Life will knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to stand back up.

Wrong way, Bones. The men's showers are in the opposite direction." I'll file that away with all the other information that doesn't pertain to me" was Bones' mocking reply.

You know how it is with fathers, you never escape the idea that maybe after all they're right.

Never play peek-a-boo with a child on a long plane trip. There's no end to the game. Finally I grabbed him by the bib and said, "Look, it's always gonna be me!"

I really enjoyed being a blonde. Men were more friendly and flirtatious. My face looked more worldly. It took the innocence away. It could be the new me.