The ignorance of French society gives one a rough sense of the infinite.

Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.

Muslims are the first victims of Islam. To liberate a Muslim from his religion is the best service that one can render him!

Man makes holy what he believes as he makes beautiful what he loves.

Forgetfulness, and I would even say historical error, are essential in the creation of a nation.

A nation is a body of people who have done great things together.

Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us.

To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together, to will to do the like again, — such are the essential conditions for the making of a people.

No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.

To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.

Love, deep and pure, it opens my heart. It feels like a magical force, one I’d fight to protect, one I’d die to keep.

Lim Oh Kee kills himself in the early hours on the 12th day of December, 1921. His last meal is rice and nothing.

I am formless and everywhere. I am in everything. I am in everything and beyond. I fill all space. All that you see, taken together, is Myself. I do not shake or move.

A policy of life insurance is the cheapest and safest mode of making a certain provision for one's family.

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.

I can kill a dog in six ways. Five of them are throwing missiles at it.

Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos.

I don't like people who hide things.

We're living on the Planet of the Apes. Is that funny or serious?

In Speaking Out I do my best to answer those questions I was asked and more, and I provide strategies for how to speak out and keep on speaking out without burning out.