We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants of courtly extravagance.

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

[A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Even if you fall on the runway, I wouldn't blame you. It would mean that we made a mistake in choosing you.

Even silence tends to scream in a strained relationship.

Most crises are not resolved through rhetoric. They are resolved through operations.

I could dispense with nothing when I created the superman. His seed still carries all your evil and falsehood, your lies and yourignorance.

We have no desire to be the world's policeman. But America does want to be the world's peacemaker.

I loved hip-hop. The first stuff I heard was Public Enemy, and I couldn't believe it. It was amazing, and I've always loved hip-hop.

People are always going to find the ones with the weird like buzz-worthy thing about a movie and like run with it.

Acting can be a great job, but you do have to make up things to do when you're not working.

At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope

The grace of God sets us free from a life of perfection, performing, and pretending.