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

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.

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

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.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

Most of the people that doubt other people's dreams do so because they don't even believe in their own dreams.

I've given her signs! I've given her plenty of signs. What does she want me to do? Slap him across the face with my glove, and challenge him to pistols at dawn?

The most obvious question of every citizen who is responsible to his nation's transformation is, "What can I do in this situation?

The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights actors and audiences - a figure dreaded and occasionally comic but never welcome never loved.

It is mind-boggling to me that there are so few movies about female friendship, considering women make up half the movie-going population.

Normally I sleep for 9, 10 hours a night.

It would have been better if I had won, but reaching the final was perfect.

Elwyn Brooks White was a very Maine personality which is, "I hate everyone and everyone stay away from me."

Less so here, I’ve noticed. I can see why there’s a misconception that it’s easier when your parents are actors, but it doesn’t work out at all. In fact, it’s the reverse.