The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

The saddest sorrow is to desire death while you have life.

Sometimes I wonder which is worse: To have to kill because it is your job, or to have no remorse for all the murderous things you have done?

You know, I don't think, you know, therapy never ends, really.

People get very creative if you include them.

I'm driven by passion. I mean, I am tired right now. I work to a point of abandon. I am fueled by my understanding of the need for self-expression that exists for young people.

Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters.

The core of my personality consists of many selves.

You've got to give something back. You can't just sit there.

Make DV movies so you can learn how to make films, but don't try to distribute them until they are fantastic.

True feelings never fade, we just learn to fill the spot.