A share in two revolutions is living to some purpose.

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

[A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

The written word is greatest sacred documentation.

The mind is the devil’s favorite avenue of attack.

The only thing you should force in a golf swing is the club back in the bag.

As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.

Sometimes you spend nine months, 10 months, a year writing a piece that you will hear two years later or something like that, and you never see anybody. It's a very different sort of metabolic.

Imitation is always insult--not flattery.

When you do not name a group of people, you are compelled to look at each individual face and not treat them all as the mass.

A philosopher is a person who doesn't care which side his bread is buttered on; he knows he eats both sides anyway.

God has saved me a million times, so I think He mustve enjoyed my song.

Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.