The history of human growth is at the same time the history of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter dawn, and the brighter dawn has always been considered illegal, outside of the law.

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.

For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority.

Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.

Thoughts create only according to their pitch, intensity, emotional quality, depth of feeling, or vibrational plane.

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

I don't think about commercial concerns when I first come up with something. When I sit down at the piano, I try to come up with something that moves me.

If courage is acting according to one's conscience despite pain or fear, then strength is the ability to keep conscience awake and in force despite the demands of authorities to do otherwise.

For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.

I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence.

The only label I would choose for myself is Christian, but if you pushed me and you say, 'What sort of Christian are you?' I'm an Anglican.

It's a great sacrifice to do what I'm doing. I'm not having fun at all...What a brutal job!