Money is a machine for doing quickly and commodiously what would be done, though less quickly and commodiously, without it.

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors.

One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.

I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.

The hurricane complicates things in that what would have been purely a business decision becomes a decision of the heart.

When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.

I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance.

If your face is swollen from the severe beatings of life, smile and pretend to be a fat man.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

The American films just have so much more publicity and so much more money behind them that it's so hard to compete.

I'm not a tanning bed person at all, but I'll get a spray tan

I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative.

When I'm working, it's great. When I'm not working, it's great.