A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

There's never been a good government.

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.

When we can see the star of desire in our sky, we can use our wings of hope and our air of love to reach it.

In MoonlightNoSoft sweet paw on my cheekNoFur curled under my chinJustA sad space left behind - Gray cat gone away. [Ellie's poem]

If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.

My view is there's no bad time to innovate.

Whatever you do, the only secret is to believe in it and satisfy yourself. Don't do it for anyone else.

History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex.

Stand-up is the place where you can do things that you could never do in public.

I think if you're open-minded, the road will take you where it takes you. If you're closed, you might not get to go where the road is heading.

None will be able to resist truth and love and sincerity. Are you sincere? Unselfish even unto death, and loving? Then fear not, not even death.