If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.

Nothing develops intelligence like travel.

Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.

Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.

The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.

Respectable people... What bastards!

The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

This chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra is enacted from the spiritual platform and thus this sound vibration surpasses all lower strata of consciouness - namely sensual, mental and intellectual.

Waban-aki: People from where the sun rises.

The monsters in my head are scared of love.

Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

I had nothing and I was still changed. Like a costume, my numbness was taken away. Then hunger was added.

All of a sudden their husband's dead and maybe a child is dead and they have absolutely nothing - and they're heading through the desert at night.

If guys don't want me to write bad songs about them, they shouldn't do bad things.

The Israelis have nuclear bombs but we have the children bomb and these human bombs must continue until liberation.