How to raise this dead level of theistic belief is really a matter of life and death for all denominations. Therefore their tolerance; but it is a tolerance not of understanding; but of weakness.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

There's never been a good government.

A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having.

A person has to ignore the larger social, economic, political, and religious climate of early North American colonialism to advance the Christian nation myth.

I knowNot these my handsAnd yet I think there wasA woman like me once had handsLike these.

Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.

Of all the roles I've done on the stage, I'm partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.

To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.

I can't imagine a life without humor. Especially if you have an existential understanding of life, you must acknowledge the absurdity of it all.

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.

It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.

But the world, in its present state, is no place for princesses.

A pard-like spirit, beautiful and swift.