It has now become a very common sentiment, that there is some deep and radical wrong somewhere, and that legislators have proved themselves incapable of discovering, or, of remedying it.

Governments commit more crimes upon persons and property and contribute more to their insecurity than all [the] criminals put together.

It is dangerous to understand new things too quickly.

Liberty, then, is the SOVEREIGNTY OF THE INDIVIDUAL.

Public influence is the real government of the world.

It has a sound and rational circulating medium, a real and definite representative of wealth.

I decline all noisy, wordy, confused, and personal controversies.

The disconnection of Church and State was a master stroke for freedom and harmony.

I got together with Sylvère because I saw how I could help him get his life together. I'm drawn to you cause I see how you can help me take my life apart...

Sunrise: day's great progenitor.

I was moving among two groups... who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral, and psychological climate had so little in common that... one might have crossed the ocean.

I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.

Writers are the main landmarks of the past.

To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect.

Our willingness to be used as God's vessels can make His Father-heart a reality to our hurting world.

Collaboration is necessary for making great art. Everybody has a perspective on what they think or feel the material should ultimately look like when it hits the screen.

At the end of the day, the only things that are shovel ready around here are the words coming out of Barack Obama and Joe Biden's mouth.

Thanks to my father, I didn't have to face the tough side of life. Probably that's why I always chose love over money.