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.

Men are convinced of your arguments your sincerity and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

I first became a vegetarian when I was nine in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change - which lasted a couple of weeks - was based on the very simple instinct that it's wrong to kill animals for food.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another either by argument or emotional appeal.

The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

Never argue at the dinner table for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude there is no need to pay attention to his arguments.