Childhood is the sleep of reason. [Fr., L'enfance est le sommeil de la raison.]

People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.

Freedom is the power to choose our own chains

The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?

Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.

I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.

No one is happy unless he respects himself.

Also at times, on the surface of streams, Water?bubbles formAnd grow and burstAnd have no meaning at allExcept that they’re water?bubblesGrowing and bursting.

Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.

When there's nothing left to save, there's nothing left to lose.

I'm a better economist than I was a sax player.

My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.

As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged down in it.

Everyone, regardless of his or her decisions, deserves our kindness!

I'm not sure I want all my neuroses cleared up

Well, there are three things that the average man thinks he can do better than anybody else. Build a fire, run a hotel and manage a baseball team.

Don't confuse good taste with the absence of taste.