Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.

The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority

...I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.

I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.

It sounds like you aren't used to having something so powerful between your legs, " Abbey said. "Maybe you should let me drive.

Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.

The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.

Actually, they should just roll it all back get rid of gambling...It destabilizes the U.S. economy

I like to sit on the front porch of an old cabin I built in the woods and just listen to the birds; I like to fish in the pond and I always throw the fish back.

My dad didn't often bring me to the set, being an actor himself, so my infancy as an actor was wracked with a lot of giggles and nervousness.

As a competitor, you have to learn pretty quickly how to deal with pressure.

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.

You realize that suicide's a criminal offense. In less enlightened times they'd have hung you for it.

It's always been easier for me to have a costume to hide behind.