Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

[A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

The greatest joy is to be a mirror of God’s love

Create or attract through focused desire the things you wish for in life.

Becoming famous is a strange thing in your own right.

Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth, they are not playing with the inner character. That is why women are happy to wear painful shoes.

We must end war before war ends us.

But we moderns are impatient and destructive.

The best thing in every noble dream is the dreamer.

We need to stop the dying and start the living; stop the hunger and start the hoping.

A guy who treats his mom well, treats his wife well.

Unmissed but by his dogs and by his groom.