Doubtless the most miserable of men, under the most oppressive government in the world, if allowed the ballot, would use it, if they could see any chance of thereby ameliorating their condition.

A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat.

Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or property of another.

Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.

Government is in reality established by the few; and these few assume the consent of all the rest, without any such consent being actually given.

These so-called governments are in reality only great bands of robbers and murderers, organized, disciplined, and constantly on the alert.

Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property.

No government knows any limits to its power except the endurance of the people.

To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights, except such as majorities please to allow them.

A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Neither are a people any the less slaves because permitted periodically to choose new masters.

With every rising of the sun, the Son's glory rises upon us.

A true writer cuts their heart open and bleeds all over the page...

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.

I just wouldn't have believed a ball could be hit that hard. I've never seen anything like it.

I'm the luckiest man in the world - performing 500 shows a year and loving what I do - illusion IS my day to day life.

Good decisions don't make life easy, but they do make it easier.

No one goes to the toilet in novels. You'd think none of us had bladders.

Industry has annexed thereto the fairest fruits and the richest rewards.

For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]

Yoga is really trying to liberate us from ... shame about our bodies. To love your body is a very important thing - I think the health of your mind depends on your being able to love your body.