If there is one thing fundamental to the life of the spirit it is the absence of force.

A State divided into a small number of rich and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by the rich to protect the amenities represented by their property.

Civilization means, above all, an unwillingness to inflict unnecessary pain ... those of us who heedlessly accept the commands of authority cannot yet claim to be civilized men.

Those who know the normal life of the poor... will realize well enough that without economic security, liberty is not worth having.

The number of substitutes for fine and clean thinking the world provides positively gnaws at one's vitals.

No citizen enjoys genuine freedom of religious conviction until the state is indifferent to every form of religious outlook from Atheism to Zoroastrianism.

A healthy loyalty is not passive and complacent, but active and critical.

Every State is known by the rights it maintains.

Without equality, I say, there cannot be liberty.

If it weren't for the law, I would steal books; if it weren't for my purse, I would buy them.

The only real security for social well-being is the free exercise of men's minds.

I watched him with wonder like the stars watch the moon, falling in love with every crescent, dark side, and dream.

Sometimes kindness doesn’t beget anything but misery. My mother didn’t have to learn that until she was in her thirties

Laughter puts your brain your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play.

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

Whatever you think and talk about paves the runway for what you will create.

When I'm 100 I'll still be doing pin-ups

I didn't want to change the name on the towels.

To have arrived at the truth means that one no longer fears death. For death and truth are similar in that they both require a great courage if one wishes to face them.

There's a gaping difference between the United States of America and Putin's Russia.

Spontaneity is an infinite number of rehearsed possibilities.