If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is committed.

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.

Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

Nowadays it is seen as a shame, to marry a girl who is a mother, who has never been married. I want to get rid of that prejudice.

The one who can draw your widest smileis also the one who can throw youto the farthest exile

Life is so beautiful, it dazzles my eyes.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do: when neither innateness nor learning has prepared you for the particular situation.

One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.

Till I was 13, I thought my name was 'Shut Up.'

Although I'm a comedian, I'm also an amateur survivalist.

I was shooting at myself - I was shooting my own violence and the violence of the times

I didn't like some of the movies that were coming into me