Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

Truth between candid minds can never do harm.

The government you elect is the government you deserve.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

I am a vicious and unrepentant killer who should be locked up. With him, my idiot boyfriend.

I saw him making love to you, you forgot to close the garage door.

No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.

As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy a rent-free space in your mind.

People who say they're too busy to have lunch have a false impression of their own importance.

I think if the church did what they were supposed to do we wouldn't have anyone sleeping on the streets.

You can't roll a joint on an iPod, buy vinyl.

The ability to be writing towards something that was actually going to be a whole series was a really big lure.

I try not to worry about other people's music. But if there's one thing that I hear these days, it's that people try and put [music] down so tight that they take all the color out of it.