Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat 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.

Everyone is the other and no one is himself.

The myth is not my own

And what this is, I realize, is life. I don't want it. I want my parents and I have for weeks. I've been trying to claw my way back to them, and now I am so close and he is telling me not to.

Rationalism doesn't require "belief," only observation. The real, measurable world doesn't care what you believe.

We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time; it is enough if he remains in orbit around it.

Was it a light only she could see? A gypsy's spell? A mystery?

I realize it's probably best to keep my politics to myself.

Nothing is as heady as the wine of possibility

The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.

There are so many young women who tip over into being a facsimile: they don't really inhabit their lives or their bodies.