If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.

The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft.

Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

Education is not a function of any church or even of a city or a state; it is a function of all mankind.

Man's destiny lies half within himself, half without. To advance in either half at the expense of the other is literally insane.

Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see the shape of extinction, whether he recognizes it as such or not.

The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality.

Our history is every human history; a black and gory business, with more scoundrels than wise men at the lead, and more louts than both put together to cheer and follow.

Punk had picked the locks, sluiced out into the grid.

I think I might have secretly wished for you to exist all my life but never knew how to admit it.

[But] the man who dares not expose his life in the defence of his children and his property, has lost in society the first and most active energies of nature.

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

I always saw being in a band a full time job.

Nothing can stop an artist from creating.

I was a very wanting child.

It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.

I love making videos on my couch. You can put those on the Internet fast. I can express myself.