It has always pleased me to read while eating if I have no companion; it gives me the society I lack. I devour alternately a page and a mouthful; it is as though my book were dining with me.

People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.

Freedom is the power to choose our own chains

The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?

Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.

I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.

No one is happy unless he respects himself.

Life without love is a lonely path.

One time I was really close to Steve Martin. I was too afraid to actually go talk to him, but I'll count that as meeting.

You learn a lot from financial disclosure. And you should go down and take a look at that.

I think anytime you start relying on a format to get you by you've got weak material to begin with.

I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia.

No one is more important to the future of our state than our teachers.

Life is cut to allow for growth ... one may vigorously put on weight before one fills it out entirely.

I still have lots of friends from my pre-success days.

I don't read books. I read the Daily Express and The Star.

My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics.