If there wasn't a God we would have to invent one to keep people sane.

People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.

Freedom is the power to choose our own chains

The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?

Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.

I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.

No one is happy unless he respects himself.

Corporate humans would be regarded as a cancerous growth on the Earth by nature.

I didn't like having secrets. Secrets only ended up hurting people.

It's the one who won't be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.

The problem with promises is that once you've made one, it's bound to be broken. It's like an unspoken cosmic rule.

I chased every band around the world. Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention, you name it. I could just go on and on. It was my hobby, my pastime, and my obsession for several years.

A night of sleep is as much preparation for the subsequent day's activity as it is recovery from that of the previous day.

Competition is a sin.

The most fun thing about being a writer is that everything is interesting.

I never voted to spend one penny of Social Security money.

Not just part of us becomes a teacher. It engages the whole self - the woman or man, wife or husband, mother or father, the lover, scholar or artist in you as well as the teacher earning money.