"[T]he commitment of time, money and man power necessary for a capital case is enormous and it takes from other cases. But I think what bothers me most is that it offers to the families of the victims and the survivors a false sense of closure."

“I read, I painted, I didn't hate niggers,”

“I wouldn't kidnap a man for sex - I'm not saying I couldn't use someone to oil the mower.”

“Being good is something that one must choose over and over again, every day, throughout the day, for the rest of one's life," Asher said. "A day is made of a thousand decisions, most small, some huge. With each decision you have the chance to work toward light, or sink toward darkness.”

“Phones are powerful at providing information.”

Source : "Kathy Calvin | President/CEO of United Nations Foundation". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

“I'm never going to be Tolstoy.”

“We should work for simple, good, undecorated things”

Source : Alvar Aalto (1970). “Synopsis”, Birkhauser

“No treaty or international agreement can contravene the Constitution.”

“Most people, of course, spend their lives caring about the wrong things. The worry about South Africa or Nicaragua. They spend so much time finding themselves that they lose their taxicabs. They don't see that what kind of napkin you get at a delicatessen is a matter of much significance in the world today. That's why they don't get linen.”