Despite the fact that in America we incarcerate more juveniles for life terms than in any other country in the world, the truth is that the vast majority of youth offenders will one day be released. The question is simple and stark. Do we want to help them change or do we want to help them become even more violent and dangerous?

[He] went on to say that during all those years he had done nothing at all, that all he had felt had been a need to live, to live actively, violently, noisily, a need to sing, to make music, to roam the woods, to drink a little too much and get involved in a brawl.

Edmond de Goncourt

Oh! the snow, the beautiful snow,Filling the sky and earth below,Over the housetops, over the street,Over the heads of the people you meet.Dancing,Flirting,Skimming along.

Thomas J. Watson

The truth is, President Bush provides the right rhetoric, but then pursues all the wrong policies.

Senator John Kerry

I don't trust anybody who didn't inhale.

Peter Fonda

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Michel de Montaigne

I hope I live long enough to see every hungry school child in the world being fed under the so-called McGovern-Dole program.

George McGovern

A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.

Oscar Wilde

The love of money is the root of all evil.

Bible

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4am of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

Joan Didion

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away.

Robert Wyatt

Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink.

Earl Long