It is with government as with medicine, its only business is the choice of evils. Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove.

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.

The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny.

I don't care whether animals are capable of thinking; all I care about is that they are capable of suffering!

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.

Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.

What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

It has been said that sometimes the greatest hope in our lives is just a second chance to do what we should have done right in the first place.

Exponential business growth comes from personal development.

If you have good food, people will come to your restaurant.

A fate is not a punishment.

When I started understanding how science works, it occurred to me that there just is no evidence that there is a God.

Using iPads as cameras, for example, is like taking pictures with a cafeteria tray.

We opened our hearts. Hear me, heal me, save me, believe me.

Practicing yoga during the day is a matter of keeping your eyes on the road and one ear turned toward the infinite.

The liberal understanding of 'the separation of church and state' means that as the area of politics expands, the area of private freedom - religious and otherwise - shrinks.

Most people have ears, but few have judgment; tickle those ears, and depend upon it, you will catch their judgments, such as they are.