Social and economic well-being will become a reality only through the zeal, courage, the non-compromising determination of intelligent minorities, and not through the mass.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

There's never been a good government.

A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having.

Do not do what you cannot continue to deliver.For, remember, the world wants to see a continuity of delivery of set standards...!

Mary, we met in a pub. As you weren’t banging a tambourine, I understand you weren’t selling the word of God.

If I had to choose a moment in time when I knew my life would be different going forward—when I knew I would be different—this would be it.

The stories in books hate the stories contained in newspapers.

It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.

If you want to buy something; it’s obviously in your best interest to convince the seller that what he’s got isn’t worth very much.

The greatest mistake you can make is to fear making a mistake.

If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong.

Having an open dialogue, in any creative atmosphere, is really important to feeling free to tell the story the best way you can.

Forgiveness is giving up the hope of what happened to you from being different.