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

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.

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.

What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

Only this actual moment is life.

It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence whether a man be behind it or no.

I'm not bothered by the idea of getting old, or I guess you could say by having arrived at old. I was 10 when my mom turned 55. For 1955, she was a very old mom.

I've decided to do it, for the pure and simple reason that I just think it's the right thing to do.

Rudeness can make me angry.

I'm a black man that is proud to be black, and I want to help the black community, but I love all mankind.

We make promises to the extent that we hope-and keep them to the extent that we fear.

In a comedy it helps enhance things that were already there.

To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container.

It's hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life.