All men can understand what representation is; and that it must necessarily include a variety of knowledge and talents.

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.

If you do not understand yourself, you will never understand the world around. The biggest world is within, outside views are our perceptual creation.

So great was my joy in God that I took no heed of looking at the angels and the saints because all their goodness and all their beauty was from Him and in Him.

Our rule is: If it makes the parent laugh, and the kid asks why, that can't be an uncomfortable conversation.

The real juice of life, whether it be sweet or bitter, is to be found not nearly so much in the products of our efforts as in the process of living itself, in how it feels to be alive.

Sometimes things would be so much simpler if you could just pull out your gun and shoot the bad guy. Reason number seventeen why Indiana Jones is my hero.

If you truly hold a stone, you can feel the mountain it came from.

I played baseball in college but I didn't identify with the jocks, I was in my own little world .

As we open our hearts to others, we begin to discover the truth of our own inner beauty, inner strength and inner light.

I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it till the end of the race.