If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession of as much happiness as is good for any of the children of Adam.

Freedom for the pike is death for the minnow.

Bankruptcies of governments have, on the whole, done less harm to mankind than their ability to raise loans.

A society which reverences the attainment of riches as the supreme felicity will naturally be disposed to regard the poor as damned ... if only to justify itself for making their life a hell.

Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.

It is probable that democracy owes more to nonconformity than to any other single movement.

Private property is a necessary institution, at least in a fallen world; men work more and dispute less when goods are private than when they are in common.

An erring colleague is not an Amalkite to be smitten hip and thigh.

The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of that activity by reference to principles.

When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them.

The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.

When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true

I've always been strongly on the side of non-violence. Also, I think that if you use the wrong means, the ends themselves get distorted.

The flak is always the heaviest closest to the target

The dying sun will glow on you without burning, as it has done today.

I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, "I never saw that" - but that's what artists do.

Perhaps depression is a perfectly natural reaction to the human condition.

I'm kind of scatterbrain and all over the place at times.

I do not worship matter; I worship the Creator of matter who became matter for my sake.

I have to be in a relationship in order to be intimate. I'm not the one-night-stand kind of girl. Despite the rumors.

I live a pretty simple life.