The most absolute authority is that which penetrates into a man's innermost being and concerns itself no less with his will than with his actions.

People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.

Freedom is the power to choose our own chains

The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?

Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.

I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.

No one is happy unless he respects himself.

Since your life evaporates quickly, it is wisdom to learn how to number your days. Not just to number your days but to make each passing day productive.

Yelling and screaming won't really get what I want from my kids.

I make hats. I'm on a hat frenzy. I'm on my eighth and I love it.

[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon.

For knowledge, add something every day. For wisdom....subtract.

It wasn't that I wanted to be an artist. But when I took my first drawing class with the painter Doug Ohlson, I could never finish a drawing.

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

I have discovered the meaning of life. It resides in what I can wrest from each day that I live.

You know you're getting fat when your socks don't fit.