The law does not generate justice. The law is nothing but a declaration and application of what is just.

Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

The possessions of the rich are stolen property.

the government can do nothing for you. But you can do everything for yourselves

In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society.

All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.

The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!

The proprietor, producing neither by his own labor nor by his implement, and receiving products in exchange for nothing, is either a parasite or a thief.

Liberty, Not the Daughter but the Mother of Order.

I do not wish to be either governor nor governed!

Perfection is a ridiculous goal because there is no such thing. Real beauty is what you are inside.

She was like a star in the sky and I would imagine how she could be mine....

Jennings is too tough and honest a writer to let anyone off her moral hook, even her hero.

The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.

Love and marriage are wonderful arenas in which to place a character. We are most likely to risk our morals and beliefs while in love. Betrayal gives tremendous insights into a character as well.

Sometimes the most important things that we do are things we cannot measure.

What about your school? It's defective, it's a pack of useless lies.

There is a physics to the world, which non-fiction has a contract to stand in awe of, otherwise it becomes completely self-centered and ego-driven, which is the death of a memoir.

"Do little pink fairies sing and dance in your world, Peabody?" "Sometimes, when it's very quiet and no one else can see."

It is for all Men that come into the World once to Die, and after Death the Judgment; and since Death is a Debt that all of us must pay, it is but a matter of small moment what way it be done.