Competition is merely the absence of oppression.

When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.

If philanthropy is not voluntary, it destroys liberty and justice. The law can give nothing that has not first been taken from its owner.

When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.

The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.

There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a more alarming situation.

In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?

Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.

Your soul fountain will never drain until the instant of eternity will halt before it to drink the water of death.

[Gonturan] is a true friend, but a friend with thoughts of her own, and the thoughts of others are dangerous.

I'm never afraid to try something if I think it's funny. And I know I'll regret it if I don't.

If people can't acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that's their loss.

I shine in tears like the sun in April.

There's no down time any more.

I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold.

A serpent is a serpent, and none the less a viper, because it is nestled in the bosom of an honest-hearted man.

So it was constantly going back and forth between these two cultures that kept raising the question, well, how important is personal freedom? And I think that has always been of interest to me.

Lots of times it really doesn't matter what notes you play, but what notes come before and after a run.