Love conquers all difficulties, surmounts all obstacles, and effects what to any other power would be impossible.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

The wise man is satisfied with nothing.

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian.

It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity.

Mies van der Rohe's architecture and modern architecture in general suffered from not only being repetitive, but not explaining to the populous what the different rooms were for.

It isn't what you do, but how you do it.

Everything I wanted to do was big. I feel like my music is big, the mark I'ma leave in this world is big, so I feel like that's the perfect name.

Being a day player, period, is one of the hardest things you can do as an actor.

Showing joy by jumping up and down and clapping goes away at some point between pre-school and being old enough to go to orgies.

Luck was with me. I saw no spiders. Luck was against me. I saw no specters.

I miss him already. He was a unique person and a dear friend. If a record came on the radio, you'd know it was Waylon Jennings.

If you've never watched people watch television, I don't recommend it. It's not an exciting thing to do.

Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.