"Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country."

"The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny."

"My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason."

"The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself."

"Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely."

"Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time."

"Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty."

"When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue."