Nevertheless, to the persecution and tyranny of his cruel ministry we will not tamely submit - appealing to Heaven for the justice of our cause, we determine to die or be free . . . .

Let us prefer the lonely cottage, while blest with liberty, to gilded palaces, surrounded with the ensigns of slavery.

Mathematicians use intuition, conjecture and guesswork all the time except when they are in the classroom.

Such is the great nature of man, it resides the true face beneath a glittering masquerade.

At least until there are new lakes in the clouds that open upon living cities as yet unknown, and perhaps forever, that is a question which you must answer within your own heart.

The truly erotic sensibility, in evoking the image of woman, never omits to clothe it. The robing and disrobing: that is the true traffic of love.

He worked at stealing her heart to replace the one she'd taken from him.

Torn between the impulse to stroke his head, and the urge to cave it in with a rock, I did neither.

I think to be shot in a mountain valley somewhere or other is altogether less glorious than crashing an airliner into a skyscraper.

Record labels today are much less patient: Artists have a bad record, and they're gone.

I took on so many things and not everything was the right fit. If you do that, it can kill your brand. A partnership has to be real and authentic.

Only what I'm not giving is what is lacking in any situation

If you don't want to see the biggest fool in your life; break your bedroom mirror.