I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.

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.

While some of us act without thinking, too many of us think without acting.

Well, the most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a woman without a sense of humor.

The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.

There's no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream.

I grew up doing musical theater.

Morality in the novel is the trembling instability of the balance. When the novelist puts his thumb in the scale, to pull down the balance to his own predilection, that is immorality.

People are shaped by friendship as much as by romance.

As thou hast created me out of mingled air and glitter, I thank thee for it. [Ger., Wie aus Duft und Glanz gemischt Du mich schufst, dir dank ich's heut.]

Chopin--Two embalmers at work upon a minor poetthe scent of tuberosesAutumn rain.

Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.