One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.

Nothing develops intelligence like travel.

Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.

Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.

Respectable people... What bastards!

realize what you are not doing and dare to do what you are not doing. What distinctive thing are you not doing?

Memory is sweet.Even when it's painful, memory is sweet.

Your fortune teller cursed me. Foul spirits haunt every supermarket I go to. I can't show my face in Morrisons.

If you want to kill the Syrian people, who's going to support us as a government, as officials? No one.

The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation.

It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.

Songwriting is a really fortunate skill to have to frame living and to find new ways to observe things you're going through.

We have no right to come before God at all, apart from the finished work of Christ.

The world is just waiting to be skated.

Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.