Pettiness separates; breadth unites. Let us be broad and big.

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.

I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

If you can get a spiritual connection without going to church, why go to church?.

It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.

The war of my life had begun; and though one of God's most powerless creatures, I resolved never to be conquered.

Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist.

May my living be grace to those behind me.

I really like writing in English, and it's the best job I've ever had.

Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired.

Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.