Everything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and nature makes neither princes nor rich men nor great lords.

People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.

Freedom is the power to choose our own chains

The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?

Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.

I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.

No one is happy unless he respects himself.

Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.

It's a grim business, this being funny. Every time you come up with a strong, satiric idea, the world tops it.

The more wit we have, the less satisfied we are with it.

There's been a thoughtfulness to everything I do. Even the stupidest things I do have some kind of point.

I don't want to be 'box-office girl,' but I don't want to be 'that indie girl' either.

Only God creates. The rest of us just copy.

There's always something that happens where I go, 'Oh, that was so awkward!'

I was the world's ugliest baby. When I was born, the doctor slapped everybody.

We are rightly appalled by the genetic effects of radiation; how then, can we be indifferent to the same effect in chemicals we disseminate widely in our environment?

You cannot help the world by focusing on the negative things. As you focus on the world's negative events, you not only add to them, but you also bring more negative things into your own life.