I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

I have been the victim of heartless malice.

Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.

I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.

It is inevitable, that eventually the people will demand absolute security from the state... And absolute security is absolute slavery.

A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

Do you have a clear Direction of Life or are you merely floating down the river of Life like a dead fish?

He tries to hand the water back, but I refuse. Jeremy's will is always stronger than anybody else's, though, and when he says he'll only drink more if I do first, I cave and drink

The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas and furnish the imagination with pictures.

A suppressed resolve will betray itself in the eyes.

If God did not care for you, there would never be a sense of a need to respond.

But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.

A lot of the political change that could happen is going to be super boring.

I am burning. If anyone lacks tinder, let him set his rubbish ablaze with my fire.

I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.