Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.

From the moment that man submits God to moral judgment, he kills Him his own heart.

Actual freedom has not increased in proportion to man's awareness of it.

Nobody wants to tell a truth which harms himself.

Failure's a natural part of life.

Politics is different than business.

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

What I like doing is writing and recording and much more on the, I guess, the - on that creative level. It's fun interpreting songs and all that, but I wouldn't like it as a living.

I've been on the side where you have nothing, and now I'm on the side where anything I want is there for me. When I didn't have the means to do whatever I wanted to do, I still had peace.

It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.

When people say "the body," frequently they mean the literal body, the physical body.

Unsoundness in a slave, as well as in a horse, detracts materially from his value. If no warranty is given, a close examination is a matter of particular importance to the Negro jockey.

In previous armies, soldiers used their time to clean their weapons and stock up on ammunition. Our weapons are words, and we may need our arsenal at any moment.