Everything that is usually understood by the term co-operation is, in some degree, an evil.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

The wise man is satisfied with nothing.

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian.

When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.

If I see a chapstick that I've never tried, I have to buy it. And then once that door's been opened, I have to check the whole store to see if there are more chapsticks that I don't have.

The purpose of all prayer is to find God's will and to make that our prayer

When I arrived in France, it was very, very difficult. Not because I was in France - I could have been anywhere - but because I was so far, far away from my parents. I missed them so much.

Here's to our wives and girlfriends...may they never meet!

Good conscience is the most valuable asset of all!

I'm half Hawaiian and the haka is a very sacred thing, something your family teaches you - my father taught me.

There is real comfort in being quiet.

General notions are generally wrong.

Children with special needs inspire a very, very special love.