Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Nothing was or is farther from my intentions, than to enlist myself as the champion of a fixed opinion, where I have only expressed doubt.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde what is once acquired of real knowledge can never be lost.

History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.

The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it.

Our habitual failure to recognise thought as thought, our habitual identification with discursive thought, is the primary source of human suffering.

There it was, Eve supposed. There was the answer to why people got tangled up with people. Because when you were down, when you were wallowing, someone you mattered to would ask if you were okay.

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done.

Everyday is a struggle but it's how you deal with your struggles that make you stronger or weaker.

The difference between a movie and a play is that the production you end up with is the production. If a movie that I spent time on turns out to be crap, it's never going to be made again.

By the mid 1920s the typical American town was in full sexual bloom. The change came with erotic fashions, literature and movies, and an unsuspected sexual aid, the automobile.

Ever get the feeling that sometime early in your life there must have been a briefing that you missed?

I jump at any chance to go back into theater.

I believe that when you really want to do something, you should go ahead and do it. I mean, I feel fear, but I never let that stop me.

Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever.