Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul.

The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.

Taxation without representation is tyranny.

Can there be any liberty where property is taken away without consent?

I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand, and villainy on the other, as this writ of assistance is.

The supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property, without his consent in person, or by representation.

A man's house is his castle.

My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.

Let the consequences be what they will, I am determined to proceed.

One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle.

A man is accountable to no person for his doings.

I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.

Because I don’t work with an outline, writing a story is like crossing a stream, now I’m on this rock, now I’m on this rock, now I’m on this rock.

Things hurt me now. My knees hurt, my back hurts. But your head still thinks it's twenty-three.

My models, my human figures, are never like extras in an interior. They are the main theme of my work. I depend absolutely on my model.

The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.

I'd rather have a small part in a good film with good people than play the lead in something I don't really care for.

It is a cliché about British bands going to America and being broken by the experience.

When you take your troubles to God, you may have them but they don't have you.

Perhaps I have lived my life to excess, but know what — if I had it to do over again, I would overdo it again.