You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest.

If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.

We've got to stop focusing solely on the symptoms of crime, and start caring about the causes as well.

Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.

Until we all start to take responsibility, until we do all we can to improve the character of our communities, we'll never break the cycle of violence and indifference.

America may be slow to rise to a challenge. But our history has shown that once we make up our minds to really do something, nothing can stand in our way.

It was another country. It was a country for the young, a country where you died before you got old.

You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.

The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.

...‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎never go to look on man till you have first looked on your God.

As polishing expresses the vein in marble, and grain in wood, so music brings out what of heroic lurks anywhere. The hero is the sole patron of music.

If the entire team can feel the same way about these things, you can consistently remain a winner.

Art is one of the sources through which the soul expresses itself and inspires others. But to express art thoroughly, one must have the inner emotions opened thoroughly.

We prefer that the leaders of the Iraqi armed forces do the honorable thing; stop fighting for a regime that does not deserve your loyalty.

If you have a surreal life like I do, you've got to have fun along the way.

I believe German soldiers are good and decent, and if they did anything wrong it was because of military necessity.