We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become president. I'm beginning to believe it.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.

I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate

I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.

I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it.

Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.

When I opened the world's largest Internet cafe, certified by the 'Guinness Book of Records, ' in Times Square in New York, I was live on 'Good Morning America, ' and for me, that was an achievement.

Finney is about the best writer of time travel stories ever, and I adore time travel stories - have to make a time travel game someday!

Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today.

Heavenly Father is constantly raining blessings upon us, but it is our fear, doubt, and sin that, like an umbrella, block these blessings from reaching us.

Saddest of all are the women who were brought up to believe that self-sacrifice is the highest female virtue. They made the sacrifice, often willingly, and they are still waiting for the blessing.

A man once told me to walk with the Lord. I'd rather walk with the bases loaded.

Doing anything in Japan as a sort of architecture - related project is just fantastic because they do everything so perfectly and so quickly. It's unlike anywhere else in the world.

And yet, after all, what is posthumous fame? Altogether vanity.

The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding.