The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens. – Henry Miller
The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over. – Henry Miller
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. – Henry Miller
The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble. – Henry Miller
The people and the mindset that killed 3,000 of our fellow citizens on September 11 2001, would have killed not 3,000, but 300,000 if they could have or 3 million or 30 million. We need to do everything we can within our value systems and legal structures to make sure that doesnt happen. – Tim Pawlenty
Its important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art. – Henry Louis Gates