I believe - indeed, I know - that whatever is fine and beautiful in the human expresses and asserts itself in spite of government, and not because of it.

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.

NON-COMBATANT, n. A dead Quaker.

When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.

There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love.

And a thimble's worth of milky moon Can touch hearts larger than a thimble.

Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.

As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.

Giving to God should come from the firstfruits of a person's labor rather than from what is left after the bills are paid.

What good is love if you never ask anything of it?

I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.

Like having your own licence to print money.