Impossibility never prevented anything from happening.

We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.

The only limit to the oppression of government is the power with which the people show themselves capable of opposing it.

Not whether we accomplish anarchism today, tomorrow, or within ten centuries, but that we walk towards anarchism today, tomorrow, and always.

We follow ideas and not men, and rebel against this habit of embodying a principle in a man.

Hate does not produce love, and by hate one cannot remake the world.

While preaching against every kind of government, and demanding complete freedom, we must support all struggles for partial freedom, because we are convinced that one learns through struggle.

Experience through freedom is the only means to arrive at the truth and the best solutions; and there is no freedom if there is not the freedom to be wrong.

You need the devotion to your work that a priest of God has for his.

Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.

I don't want to get close to people who have secrets that I don't know about.

You're never a failure until you fail to get up.

That indescribable expression peculiar to people who hope they have not been asleep, but know they have.

Bad things can happen, and often do--but they only take up a few pages of your story; and anyone can survive a few pages.

The Christian is a person who makes it easy for others to believe in God.

I would like to say that what Mel Phillips was doing was not sexual harassment but more sexual abuse of children, because he was doing it in a sexual manner now that I look back on it.

You know, you only get one family, and you have to make it work.

It is astonishing how many books I find there is no need for me to read at all.