Whoever claims any right that he is unwilling to accord to his fellow-men is dishonest and infamous.

Liberty sustains the same relation to mind that space does to matter.

This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.

This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself. Keep your mind open to the influences of nature. Receive new thoughts with hospitality. Let us advance.

When you go home you ought to go like a ray of light—so that it will, even in the night, burst out of the doors and windows and illuminate the darkness.

With every drop of my blood I hate and execrate every form of tyranny, every form of slavery. I hate dictation. I love liberty.

I swear that while I live I will do what little I can to preserve and to augment the liberties of man, woman, and

There is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence.

The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellowmen.

The theologians dead, knew no more than the theologians now living.

When all men give to all others all the rights they claim for themselves, this world will be civilized.

A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

It’s most unfair. Once people find out you’re a vampire they act as if you’re some kind of monster.

When you have given your best, you are left with no regrets.

Most fast food is fried. Fried food tastes great, and people don't seem to care about the fat aspect.

There are only two ways to deal with the media: either elect to take the Buddha's vow of eternal silence, or make one's voice known as responsibly as one humanly can, and take the consequences.

My best quality is that I talk to everyone. My worst quality is that I talk to everyone.

I do sing about drinking, but it's in a party way. I don't sing about drinking in a drowning-my-sorrows way, like in George Jones's "If Drinking Don't Kill Me (Her Memory Will)."

My parents are pretty good about keeping me humble. They brought me up good.

In my eyes, perfection is imperfection

People only become writers if they can't find the one book they've always wanted to read.