It has a sound and rational circulating medium, a real and definite representative of wealth.

Governments commit more crimes upon persons and property and contribute more to their insecurity than all [the] criminals put together.

It is dangerous to understand new things too quickly.

It has now become a very common sentiment, that there is some deep and radical wrong somewhere, and that legislators have proved themselves incapable of discovering, or, of remedying it.

Liberty, then, is the SOVEREIGNTY OF THE INDIVIDUAL.

Public influence is the real government of the world.

I decline all noisy, wordy, confused, and personal controversies.

The disconnection of Church and State was a master stroke for freedom and harmony.

When there is no one to teach you life will show you. All you have to do is pay attention.People unfortunately rarely take the time to sit back and evaluate. Their too busy being busy.

...the quickest, efficient, least expensive way to educate a man is to make it painful for him when he is wrong, the same as with any other animal.

I'm quite detached from failure and success. Once a shooting is done, I kind of close that chapter in my life.

The Fall is an offense to human reason, but once accepted, it makes perfect sense of the human condition.

Remember that you create your world. It’s not what happens to you, but how you choose to deal with it.

The years keep coming and going, Men will arise & depart; Only one thing is immortal: The love that is in my heart.

The mere absence of war is not peace.

How long will you keep me?" I asked. You shrugged. "Forever, of course.

An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist

The point of fashion is that you take the picture you want. And fashion is the only photography that allows fantasy, and I'm a fantasist.