Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

I think racial profiling is wrong. It cannot be defended. It's just flat wrong. And if a matter came before me, and it could be established that the arrest was made strictly on racial profiling, when I was on the bench, it would be gone.

Well, I - all cases to me have interest. Every case is important to somebody, the people litigating that case. But the most difficult case for me is the case where one person says a, the other person says b, and you just don't know for certain who is not telling you the truth.

I think, unfortunately, some people are just bad, they're just born bad, and I don't know why.

I have great faith in the jury system.

And so they pitched the show to me. It sounded like a good idea. We pitched the show back, and got it sold and got it on the air. And that's kicking the tail.

We must focus on people as people, regardless of race, creed, color or gender.

And some people, you've got to lock up. If you don't, they're going to hurt you.

But I do believe this - I believe that fundamentally, society is headed in the right direction or wants to head in the right direction, and I think judges have an obligation to try to help it head there.

Well, I think every now and again, some people deserve to get their butts chewed. Every now and again some people deserve a pat on the back. What I try and do is compliment folk who deserve a compliment, and chew folks out who deserve to be chewed out.

I think most folks are good folks.

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

The color of somebody's skin or the way he wears his hair or clothes has nothing to do with anything.

Every unfortunate event does not give rise to lawsuit.

I realize that I live on the bubble of insanity. I feel the weight of human suffering, loneliness and despair on me all the time. It's not getting easier; if anything, it's always right on the edge of my skin.

Believe in your baseball dreams and you're halfway to reaching your baseball goals.

Canadians are the best, they're the best.

In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots to the limits of mechanical skills and human endurance. Aviation was young.

I think it's a comedian's job to make everything funny. Nothing is off-limits.

Avoidance has never been a great tactic in solving any problem. For most situations in life, not addressing what's going on only makes matters worse.

Most of my stories have some basis in fact.

An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members.

Gambling is part of the human condition. I love it. I have the best time gambling. I've been winning fortunes, and I've been losing them.

Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper... talking about the things that matter to us.

These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.

Until I was eighteen, I did not know that you could study fashion design or art. I really didn't know. I already had my nose in the art world; I was already looking at things, but I didn't really get it that you could study that because my school was a very different environment.

The arrangement of the words matters, and the arrangement you want can be found in the picture in your mind. The picture dictates the arrangement. The picture dictates whether this will be a sentence with or without clauses, a sentence that ends hard or a dying-fall sentence, long or short, active or passive.

I like mythology - anything historical.

A Southern accent is not a club in my bag.

Training's training; boxing's boxing. Everyone does the same kind of stuff: they spar, they train, they do whatever they do to prepare for fights.

I'm a huge fan of Drake. Anything he puts out is great to work out to.

I think food and education will help stem the poverty of the young people who are being drawn into terrorism every day.

I had moved back to Kenya after undergrad, and I went through this crisis of, 'What is my life going to be about?'

Improv training allows you to get out of your head a little bit and take more risks, which is something I would like to continue to improve upon.

You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.

It's easy to say why I love coming to Chicago for my signings, because I still remember the very first time I came to Chicago, right before 'Shiver' came out. I remember I was so struck by the feel of the city, how wide open it felt, even with these massive buildings all around me. The parks and green spaces are incredible.

I am the Olympic, World, Commonwealth, and European champion now, and I hope that's enough for people to accept that I am a half-decent British athlete.

Writing is the beast unto itself.