I spent all night feeding the homeless to dogs.
We tried to provide more for the poor and produced more poor instead. We tried to remove the barriers to escape poverty, and inadvertently built a trap.
Illegitimacy is the single most important social problem of our time - more important than crime, drugs, poverty, illiteracy, welfare or homelessness because it drives everything else.
What a racially segregated system once taught the young black about living with his inferiority is now taught by a benevolent social welfare system. The difference was that in an earlier age a black parent could fight the competing influences.
People need self-respect, but self-respect must be earned -- it cannot be self-respect if it's not earned -- and the only way to earn anything is to achieve it in the face of the possibility of failing.
The welfare state is an enemy of private property. The excessive taxation used to support the welfare state is extremely dangerous.
Give people plenty and security, and they will fall into spiritual torpor.
I didn't tie anybody up. And I was never on a scene where anyone was killed. I think the law says you can only keep me seventeen or eighteen years if I was never on a scene where anyone was killed. I was never on the crime scenes. I didn't kill nobody, I didn't tell nobody to get killed. I didn't get no trial, but we don't wanna hear that- don't wanna mix anything up with the truth.
I love working with actors, and it's great that I'm an actor myself. I know how I like to be directed and how I like to be talked to.
I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
I can hardly wait for tomorrow, it means a new life for me each and every day.