No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest.

[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . .

Who will wear a shoe that hurts him, because the shoe-maker tells him 'tis well made?

Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.

Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.

If his Majesty is resolved to have my head, he may make a whistle of my arse if he pleases.

I will believe in the right of one man to govern a nation despotically when I find a man born unto the world with boots and spurs, and a nation with saddles on their backs.

That which is not just, is not Law; and that which is not Law, ought not to be obeyed.

For violence or fraud can create no right.

Liars need to have good memories.

[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.

Confident in spirit, courageous in soul.

Only light comes out of darkness, " she whispered.

Beneath her thinnest skin and light, a fuse leads way to dynamite.

One thing is clear to me: we, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.

Progressive art can assist people to learn what's at work in the society in which they live.

Girls can do anything, for sure. Even running in the mud in heels.

I love it when people want to interpret my books.

I'm a father of four girls and I know very much about the relationship between a father and his daughters.

But the moment a bird was dead, no matter how beautiful it had been in life, the pleasure of possession became blunted for me.