Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

Truth between candid minds can never do harm.

The government you elect is the government you deserve.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

Never expect anything less than devotion from someone who has claim on your heart.

The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man.

Everyone's just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it's a huge antidote to that to have a concept album.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

Change lays not her hand upon truth.

A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.

I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is.

There's a difference between watching a film and watching a bit of cinema and enjoying a film as a piece of cinema.