Man must go back to nature for information.

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

[A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

We can only live life when we understand life.

A photo frame with many pictures is the best present ever for a long trip. I can almost feel all those moments..

Revenge easily descends into an endless cycle of hate and violence. The Bible says never repay evil with evil.

Every combat is the bloody and destructive measuring of the strength of forces, physical and moral; whoever at the close has the greatest amount of both left is the conqueror.

The mind is an untrained child you got to teach what to do.

The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.

Never judge your own writing. You're not fit to do so.

Time is the most terrible, the most discouraging, the most unconquerable of all obstacles, and one that may exist when no other does.

If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I consider it the lesser chaos.

You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.