More pernicious than the power of a dictator is that of a class; the most terrible - the tyranny of a majority.

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.

It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s forgotten.

Understanding is a pure glass of water. All great truths have no taste. Hints of sweetness are coloured by the need for amazement.

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims—the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates.

Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It's among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible.

The scientist finds his reward in what Henri Poincare calls the joy of comprehension, and not in the possibility of application to which any discovery may lead.

Everything I do is part of my passion. I do the things I like to do. It's sort of a bigger version of having more than one hobby. I love to play piano, sing, and act. I love to do all those things.

Women are wired to do more and different things because of their lack of ego

You can just look at a mountain and get a connection with God, you don't have to understand the mountain to feel that.

Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.

Look at His adorable face. Look at His glazed and sunken eyes. Look at His wounds. Look Jesus in the Face. There, you will see how He loves us.