I may be arrested, I may be tried and thrown into jail, but I never will be silent.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

There's never been a good government.

A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having.

Trying not to believe things when in your heart you are almost sure they are true, is as bad for the temper as anything I know.

Novels are just very, very, very long lies. That is to say, you’ve got to get your story straight!

Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.

Some people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up.

Horses and jockeys mature earlier than people - which is why horses are admitted to racetracks at the age of two, and jockeys before they are old enough to shave.

One will never reach distant shores, if he chooses to remain upon the dock, In fear his little ship of dreams may be dashed against the rocks.

I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.

His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt.

Opportunity knocks only once. You never know if you'll get another opportunity.

Production is not something physical, material, and external; it is a spiritual and intellectual phenomenon.