"It does not pay to be friendly with officers, they take advantage of you."

“Are you a censor? Do you tell people not to say “girl”? Shame on you! If nothing offends you, you’re a saint or you’re psychotic. If a few things offend you, deal with them--fairly. If you’re often offended by things, you’re probably a self-righteous ***** and it’s too bad you weren’t censored yourself--by your mother in an abortion clinic.”

“Whenever you appreciate a certain thing you become conscious of its real quality, and whenever you become conscious of the quality of anything, you begin to develop that quality in yourself. When we appreciate the worth of a person, we tend to impress the idea of that worth in our own minds, and thereby cause the same effect to be produced, in a measure, in ourselves.”

“I was raised with a sense of entrepreneurship - my father owned a roofing business, and I grew up with the idea that you never want someone telling you what you can and cannot do.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“Those who love the young best stay young longer.”

“In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls.”

“I suppose fear is like a drug. A little bit isn't that bad, but you can get addicted to the consumption and distribution of it.”

“We need to walk to know sacred places, those around us and those within. We need to walk to remember the songs.”

Source : Joseph Bruchac (1999). “No borders: new poems”, Holy Cow Press

“Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But finally there are still others which a man is even afraid to tell himself, and every decent man has a considerable number of such things stored away. That is, one can even say that the more decent he is, the greater the number of such things in his mind.”