It is always a poor way of reading the hearts of others to try to conceal our own. [Fr., C'est toujours un mauvais moyen de lire dans le coeur des autres que d'affecter de cacher le sien.]

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.

Wouldn’t this old world be better If the folks we meet would say: ‘I know something good about you, ’ And then treat us that way?

Much else than liberalization has happened in the nineties (in India)

In one breath, I can say that we are God, but in another I have to say that we aren't deities.

I'm going to live long enough to live in an America that will assume universal health care is a basic right. That will be amusing and terrific.

When you're in your lane, there's no traffic.

One person can keep a secret, but not two.

The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches--enduring loneliness.

When I write lyrics, I really do go into an automatic folk appropriation mode... I see the vernacular register of 20th century song as being a bunch of forms to adapt and reconfigure.

A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result.

Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you