Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

I have been the victim of heartless malice.

Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.

I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.

It is inevitable, that eventually the people will demand absolute security from the state... And absolute security is absolute slavery.

A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

Life becomes boring when it has no destination or purpose.

It's not enough to just do your best. You must continue to improve your best.

It’s like I’m on a roller-coaster ride, but I’m not allowed to get off. I’m strapped to the seat, and within eyesight the unfinished twirl of the track swirls into the air.

There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President.

I think if you are an outsider then you are an outsider always.

There is a point. I don't know what it is, but everything I've had, and everything I've lost, and everything I felt—it meant something.

As an actor, you never know where the works going to come, so you have to be flexible about it.

I can definitely be tough when pushed. In relationships, you have to take a stand for who you are and how you're willing to be treated.

I heard this album as finished, I heard it in dreams . . . It was like the revelations of John the Baptist or something.

Life shall be built in doing and suffering and creating.