"Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible."

"The beauty of the unknown is that character is forged in the fires of discipline."

"This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects, for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half."

"Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress."

"There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment."

"Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides."

"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."

"If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction."