A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.

Nothing develops intelligence like travel.

Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.

Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.

Respectable people... What bastards!

The crux of our conflict lay in the fact that we each couldn't be who we wanted the other to be.

I don't ever want to believe my own press clippings, good or bad.

Shut up! Go back to bed, America. Your government is in control. Here's Love Connection. Watch this and get fat and stupid.

It's ginned up by the corporate plutocracy as a way of distracting the working-class people that it's screwing. We hamstring our own natural progressivism in this country, and that's really stupid.

Mother, are you there? I love you. I never meant to hit you over the head with that shovel.

I think nowadays economic liberties are an explosive issue.

Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

If I die, what a beautiful death.

I was indeed very slow as a youngster.

As long as we're fit, we just have so much to give on the court.