The purpose of the state is really freedom.

Every person should embrace those [dogmas] that he, being the best judge of himself, feels will do most to strengthen in him love of justice.

Scriptural doctrine contains not abstruse speculation or philosophic reasoning, but very simple matters able to be understood by the most sluggish mind.

If Scripture were to describe the downfall of an empire in the style adopted by political historians, the common people would not be stirred.

The ways of men and women are such a puzzle. And I could barely decipher my own feelings, let along anyone else's.

A man with a silver spoon may get his share of supporters, but he can never be an inspiration for somebody! Patience and hard work are the key to every man's success.

Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good.

I was trying to make a novel about something no one wanted to read about into something they couldn't put down or look away from.

If any difference should be made by law between husband and wife, reason, justice and humanity, if their voices were heard, would dictate that it should be in her favor.

You can always dream, and your dreams can come true. But you have to make them come true

Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.

I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once. I am happy being here and all the things that are a risk I normally avoid.

There's no happy ending to cocaine. You either die, you go to jail, or else you run out.