Hell isn’t merely paved with good intentions; it’s walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

If I hit a man, his head is gonna go into the bleachers.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

A fool and his money are soon elected.

In any decision for action, when you have to make up your mind what to do, there is always a ‚should‘ involved, and this cannot be worked out from, ‚If I do this, what will happen?‘ alone.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

The fact is, violence is not only not a beautiful thing, but it’s also very painful and not without consequences for the perpetrator as well as the victim.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

How does a nice Catholic girl end up going to prison for a year? It’s crazy. I’ve made mistakes. I have to pay for those mistakes.

There is no injustice in the grace of God. God is as just when He forgives a believer as when He casts a sinner into hell.

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.

When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.

He that won’t be counseled can’t be helped.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

But if you – if what – the reports are true, what they’re saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that’s going to increase our costs, we knew that.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

You always have to remember that if you say something negative, it’s going to come back to haunt you.

In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.

People have me pinned as a shark or a predator in some way, and in no way am I that. I wouldn’t want to hurt anyone. I want to defend people. I want to help people.

He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?