Whoever knows how to take, to defend, the thing, to him belongs property.

The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

Freedom cannot be granted. It must be taken.

Whoso is full of sacred (religious, moral, humane) love loves only the spook, the "true man," and persecutes with dull mercilessness the individual, the real man.

We don't call it sin today, we call it self-expression.

Religion itself is without genius. There is no religious genius and no one would be permitted to distinguish between the talented and the untalented in religion.

My power is my property. My power gives me property. My power am I myself, and through it am I my property.

If it is right for me, it is right. It is possible that it is wrong for others: let them take care of themselves!

A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of egoists.

Whoever is a complete person does not need to be an authority.

The wrong man is not always wrong because of his wrong actions, often he is wrong because of no actions.

No matter how intently one studies the hundred little dramas of the woods and meadows, one can never learn all the salient facts about any one of them.

I very much believe in values-based leadership and that the values that I believe in and try to govern by are transcendent values.

I don't know if the character's come back and it was someone else playing it, or maybe they never did it again. But I loved it. It was a great part [The Joker] to play.

People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they don't deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things.

I wanted to see Democrats out there talking about our core set of issues. And let people around this country vote, let - people have caucuses, let them do it however they're going to do it.

Primarily, God is not bound to punish sin; he is bound to destroy sin. The only vengeance worth having on sin is to make the sinner himself its executioner.

What could be better in al-Qaeda's mind than to have India and Pakistan going at each other? What more to further their aims?

April brings the primrose sweet, / Scatters daisies at our feet.

Being a reporter took me out of myself and that shaped me as a writer.