An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.

Nothing develops intelligence like travel.

Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.

Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.

Respectable people... What bastards!

Being healthy, balanced, and positive is key to making a positive first impression. How you feel about yourself sets the tone for how other people feel about you too.

I think the first song I ever wrote ... was called "Can't Help Thinking About Me." That's an illuminating little piece, isn't it?

My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then?

Sometimes I could quit paint and take to charring. It must be fine to clean perfectly, to shine and polish and know that it could not be done better. In painting that never occurs.

Put the walls up. Get the better walls. There's no reason the army website should be hacked.

Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above this is the right time for marriage.

As long as I'm alive, you'll never see the last of Lightning!

Only when the form grows clear to you, will the spirit become so too.

We fight not for glory, nor for wealth, nor honour but only and alone for freedom which no good man surrenders but with his life.

Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.