Europe, and not England, is the parent country of America. This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe.

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

[A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

It is always a difficult issue for each of us to trust one another yet we expect to be trusted by others.

Your past is always going to be the way it was. Stop trying to change it.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

All is race - there is no other truth.

The only reason that we humans and all creatures have made it thus far is because of the lessons learned consciously and unconsciously through the challenges we have been through.

I don’t like it when you use my shampoo, because then your hair smells like me, not you.

Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!

Pranking is ultimately turning the world upside down. It's in good fun.

In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology.

If you stopped playing notes, Music would still exist.