No one has ever overdosed on encouragement.
The fault no child ever loses is the one he was most punished for.
Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment
It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.
The laws that forbid the carrying of arms. . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity. . . will respect the less important and arbitrary ones. . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants, they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.
For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.
Laws against the possession of weapons only disarm those who have no intention of committing a crime.
Feeling free inside oneself is being free.
What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?
The creativity that comes from silence, from a quiet heart, feels different from that of ambition to both the creator and the observer. When the artist or the worker is out of the way, both the creator and the observer experience the art as simply a gift, an expression of the impersonal intelligence shared by all. The creator has no need to take credit for it, the observer no need to possess it.
"You look how you look," "Be comfortable. What are you going to do? Be hungry every single day to make other people happy? That's just dumb. "