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It's about taking the time to research and think things out. Honest people and criminals do the same thing; just the direction, good or bad, is different.

I don't know why, but audiences are often sympathetic to thieves. Sometimes they are more sympathetic to thieves then they are to earnest people. What does that say about society?

Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.

I realized crime isn't the only way you can judge people. People can do good things, and people can do bad things. It's probably better to understand people for the good things they do.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

People tend to believe the bad rather than the good.

We must show there is good in society. If you read the newspapers, you think there are only crooks in this world, but that's not true.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

Very few people do bad things because they're bad. They generally do bad things because they think they're the right thing to do, but they're misplaced.

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.