The persecution of the innovator and protestant has always been inspired by fear on the part of constituted authority of having its infallibility questioned and its power undermined.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

There's never been a good government.

A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having.

I have a billion what-ifs and no way forward.

The condition of women in a nation is the real measure of its progress.

I think, in our darkest moments, you have to find the humor, and you have to find the lightness.

There are a lot of good things about being famous but there are a few not so good things too.

For me, it's very childish to tour on a train. And I think that's a powerful quality, to inspire childishness.

The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.

Wynton Marsalis' skills have grown as fast as his ambition, and he is the most ambitious younger composer in Jazz.

Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life.

Like heterosexuality, faith in immaterial realities is popularly considered essential to individual morality.

If you're an artist, the problem is to make a picture work whether you are happy or not.