Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch.

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 idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception.

The best way to determine the Values you will enforce in your business is to clarify your personal values.

The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

Success is a lot of things. In my personal life it is to have my own family with me, to give all my best to let my daughter have a better life than me, better choices.

Love - at least the pair-bonded, prescribed love - does not conquer all.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

I'll sing as long as people want to hear me, and I'll be able to sing as long as I'm alive.

You can never pat yourself on the back during the season. Then you get complacent, stop working and let yourself slide.

A good rule for writers: do not explain overmuch.