A human life gains lustre and strength only when it is polished and tempered.
Losing a son, losing a daughter, a brother, a sister, losing a close friend - it can go beyond grief to isolation and feeling despair.
If faith is your motivation, share that.
Criminal justice is about respecting the law and being respected by the law so there is a fundamental respect issue here.
I have lived according to rules that I embrace, but I don't feel like my job is to force others to embrace the rules that I embrace for myself.
Most evil in the world is only partly because of an evil person. Most of it is because of the complicity of bystanders.
If you want to have a society where people are respected and respect laws, you can't have somebody at the top who demeans every group that he talks about.
What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism.
Someone has somewhere commented on the fact that millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Love never comes with a brochure of rules and regulations, a prospectus with guides of what is acceptable and what is abominable. It’s a standard to follow your heart, and that’s what I did and if doing that hurt you, then I’m sorry… sorry for coming in your life and wasting your time, for causing you an anguish so great that you could not bear the sight of me. Today, I am proud to stand up and honour myself and proclaim to the world… yes, I loved someone more than myself. I loved someone truly, madly, deeply!
I am Ecuadorian but people felt so safe passing me off as a skinny, blue-eyed white girl.