It sends the signal that you can kill and walk away and not face the kind of justice that you ought to pay for those kinds of acts.

In Alabama this would be a capital case, and if we don't get justice in Australia we're going to pursue the death penalty here

I believe that the death penalty is the ultimate deterrent to violent crime...period.

I stood up to the liberal elite when they came to our state (Alabama) and tried to eliminate the death penalty, we won, they lost.

We don’t have time, we just have a moment in time.

I wasn't like, 'I want to be famous.' I just wanted to be an actor. I wasn't chasing anything. I was never stressed or worried. I never had any fear of rejection or not making it, anything like that.

To know everything is to know nothing, but to know nothing is to know everything.

I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.

Most grievous of all deaths it is to die of hunger.

It is a sad thing when men have neither enough intelligence to speak well nor enough sense to hold their tongues; this is the root of all impertinence.

I've always hated the way I looked.

I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job.

We do not depend upon any external help in meditation.

Oppression makes a poor country.