[The Catholic convent] had been like the Valley of the Shadow of Death, and there are white scars on my soul, where ignorance and superstition burnt me with their hell fire in those stifling days.

There is no peace now, and there will never be peace, so long as one rules over another.

I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.

I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.

I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

There is no society for the prevention of cruelty to women.

A standing army is a standing menace to liberty.

Speak, speak, speak, & remember that whenever anyone's liberty to speak is denied, your liberty is denied also, & your place is where the attack is.

... it is better to study how to live rather than how to die; ... it is better to have a religion of deeds rather than a religion of creeds; ... it is better to work for humanity than for God.

There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.

The question of souls is old—we demand our bodies, now. We are tired of promises, god is deaf, and his church is our worst enemy.

Think of who has shaped your life and where you have come now in the present.

The thing about the sun… is that it’s always there. Like sometimes, you can’t see it, but it never really goes away.

I'm not going to be lectured to.

. . .by lifting our hands we symbolically receive everything God is doing in our lives.

But I think traveling around and going around the world and making arrangements for moving around is the most difficult thing, 'cuz you don't know what's going to happen.

The greatest barrier to evangelization today is bad example....Our strategy of evangelization must be based upon sanctity, upon our enthusiastic response to Christ's universal call to holiness.

I do better on the first three takes; I won't be better at 20 takes.

I have to lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and become a madman myself

People become who they are. Even Beethoven became Beethoven.

There is always going to be a reason why you can't do something; your job is to constantly look for the reasons why you can achieve your dreams.