All political and religious systems have their root and their strength in the innate conservatism of the human mind, and its intense fear of autonomy.

Anyone who has not known that inestimable privilege can possibly realize what good fortune it is to grow up in a home where there are grandparents.

What its children become, that will the community become.

No human being, man, woman, or child, may safely be entrusted to the power of another; for no human being may safely be trusted with absolute power.

There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.

Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word "human."

the desire to enforce our own moral and spiritual criteria upon posterity is quite as strong as the desire to enforce them upon contemporaries.

People never move towards revolution; they are pushed towards it by intolerable injustices in the economic and social order under which they live.

It is necessary to grow accustomed to freedom before one may walk in it sure-footedly.

I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.

If we're trying to protect the American public, we should not put in place a travel ban.

Strength comes from solitude, a waiting, a communion with the best in us, which is at one with the divine spark.

Just because she's dead it doesn't mean I stopped loving her or that she stopped loving me. It's just her body that left. The love didn't. —Jenna Richards

I was never a feminist because I was never ugly enough for that.

The best defence of peace is not power, but the removal of the causes of war, and international agreements which will put peace on a stronger foundation, than the terror of destruction.

as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.

It takes good memory to keep up a lie

There are many different ways of categorizing news. It doesn't have to be just war and famine and serious politics.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.