The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior of those who are not, so long he is the repository of power.

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.

It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience!

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.

Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.

Individuality is the aim of political liberty.

Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night.

The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.

A soul,--a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth.

A quiet mind is the quickest and biggest step to a peaceful world.

My mother can't have been magic, or she wouldn't have died", said Riddle

Nothin' wrong with havin' a cat in the house. They can see what most people can't, like the folks in the Otherworld when they cross back over - the good ones and the bad. And they get rid a mice.

Why am I so weak, why do I care so much?What is holding on, what's wrong with me..

Collaboration is the best way to work. It's only way to work, really. Everyone's there because they have a set of skills to offer across the board.

No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.

I am able to apply certain things to my craft that maybe other comedians don't, because I'm a devotee.

The wise man knows he doesn't know.

Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.

I have ignored my health for years, but recent developments have forced me to re-evaluate my priorities of faith and family.