Mankind has been punished long and heavily for having created its gods; nothing but pain and persecution have been man's lot since gods began.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

There's never been a good government.

A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having.

The book is man's best invention so far.

Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot.

Memory demands an image.

The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.

Our human impulse is to control everything, but fiction seems to me to be about allowing an element of mystery into the text.

Like wildflowers you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.

When your mission is to restore honor and integrity to the White House, you've got to be willing to use any means necessary.

As a viewer I came of age during a time when cast members were prone to fistfights. So I may be carrying a little of that kind of image in my head.

Gun stripping is the tea ceremony of America.

I just want to make sure that public service doesn't have to be an occupation, but it needs to be a way of life.