Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good.

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove.

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.

The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny.

I don't care whether animals are capable of thinking; all I care about is that they are capable of suffering!

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.

Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.

It is with government as with medicine, its only business is the choice of evils. Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.

I wanted to kill her and make her eat her fringe. And her knickers.

God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereignty he had gained over the human heart.

Life changes so quickly. feeling grateful to be around such wonderful people to strengthen and grow with.

I know great songwriters. Fred Neil would come up when he was in L.A., we all used to hang out. He would sit there and sing, and we would just melt. I mean, we would go to his recording sessions.

Not really. I'm not a fan of Chinese food

Music, it requires more than brawn. It requires a lot of heart. You gotta put love in there.

As far as playing playing festivals and everything, I feel like that's what I was born to do. I'm an entertainer, hopefully in the best sense.

People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being.

The Goal is not to have a warm, dry house, but to have a warm, dry house with a spirit to it.

Not everything has a happy ending, and not everything has an ending. Some things just kind of dribble away or cut off abruptly.