Quotes on Rehabilitation

Circumstances of crimes vary. So do motives. And so do prospects for rehabilitation. The number of imponderables makes it impossible to sentence by formula and still sentence justly.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

What We want is to make it possible for our unfortunate people to live a life of industry for it is by steady work alone that we hope for our physical and moral rehabilitation. For this reason above all we have undertaken to rally our people around our ideal.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

We talk of globalization, and how much money is needed for the education of children in the world, their liberation and rehabilitation just $9 billion which is four days of military expense. Just four days. Nine billion dollars is nothing. But what Americans spent on ice cream just 20 percent of this. One fifth of what you spend on ice creams could bring the children out of the clutches of their masters and put them to school.

Sometimes it takes dealing with a disability - the trauma, the relearning, the months of rehabilitation therapy - to uncover our true abilities and how we can put them to work for us in ways we may have never imagined.

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.

The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.

Socialism's results have ranged between the merely shabby and the truly catastrophic - poverty, strife, oppression and, on the killing fields of communism, the deaths this century of perhaps 100 million people. Against that doctrine was set a contrary, conservative belief in a law-governed liberty. It was this view which triumphed with the crumbling of the Berlin Wall. Since then, the Left has sought rehabilitation by distancing itself from its past.

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.

If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe.