Man with the great M is only an ideal, the species only something thought of.

The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

Freedom cannot be granted. It must be taken.

Whoso is full of sacred (religious, moral, humane) love loves only the spook, the "true man," and persecutes with dull mercilessness the individual, the real man.

We don't call it sin today, we call it self-expression.

Religion itself is without genius. There is no religious genius and no one would be permitted to distinguish between the talented and the untalented in religion.

My power is my property. My power gives me property. My power am I myself, and through it am I my property.

If it is right for me, it is right. It is possible that it is wrong for others: let them take care of themselves!

A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of egoists.

Whoever is a complete person does not need to be an authority.

Hope docks in my heart

It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!

My film is intentionally political. And I think that's really the issue.

Anyway that other thing we almost did in Paris-that's probably off the table for a while.Unless you want that whole baby-I'm-on-fire-when-we kiss thing to become freakishly literal

Goodness knows the Republican electorate is a pretty narrow slice of the population.

A loving wife is better than making 50 in cricket, or even 99, beyond that I will not go.

A lot of times the character's experience is not in accordance with the tone of the movie and it's not really my job to account for the tone of the movie. That's the director's job.

My first occupation was to map the country.

Eating's going to be a whole new ball game. I may even have to buy a new pair of trousers.

There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.