It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood.

There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

All knowledge degenerates into probability.

It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause

When they have something to hide, they put it in the F.O.I. cabinet.

Fill your life with love and you will be healthy, young, beautiful and full of energy and strength.

Before the constitution can protect the people it must first protect the person.

There is no feeling like coming home after danger.

I believe that creature is a changeling: she is a perfect cabinet of oddities.

Faces come and faces go in circular rotation.But something yearns within to grow beyond infatuation.

You know the sting of losing or not getting something you badly want. When that happens show what you are made of.

Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which the Pope kissingthe tarmac is merely a pallid vestigial remnant.

Take a play that you like but you think is flawed, and see if you can improve it and turn it into a musical. [...] Then make up your own story.

When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will be free.