Ask yourself whether you are happy and you will cease to be so.

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors.

One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.

Then he kissed her without breathing, without thinking. He kissed her until his entire body was tingling from the taste of her.

Worry is like a rocking chair-it keeps you busy but gets you nowhere.

Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.

Eyes of youth have sharp sight but commonly not so deep as those of elder age.

Quality is the one absolutely necessary ingredient of all the most successful companies in the world.

Sleep is forbidden. When I'm working, I'm a machine and I don't look at other people like they are human.

People aren't interested in paying $10 or $12 to go to the movies and to be lectured to politically. I'm not either. So I don't try to make those kinds of films.

For me, one I love the 80's, I love 80's music, I'm sort of a baby of the 80's, I grew up in the 80s

Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.