Some other natural rights... [have] not yet entered into any declaration of rights.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

Truth between candid minds can never do harm.

The government you elect is the government you deserve.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

Pretty girls kissed me on victory day, their lips soft red petals brushing my face.

Whenever people reach out the hand of friendship towards me, I am not going to refuse that hand.

I swear my car won't run unless I'm picking my nose: At least, I'm that superstitious about it, so I don't want to take any chances.

I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory trace of past events, as the snail leaves its slime.

I am not an exponent of expressionism. I don't know exactly what that means, but I don't like the sound of it. I dislike cults and isms. I want to paint in terms of my own thinking and feeling.

As the lead of a movie, you really set the tone off-camera as well, and that's a really big responsibility.

The rule should be to minimize the need for people to get together to accomplish anything.

Protection of children from violence and abuse has always been my main activity or campaign.

The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.

I'm impossible to direct. I couldn't get myself to do anything.