The protection of a man's person is more sacred than the protection of his property.

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

[A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go you gotta go.

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

You want it, you buy it, you forget it.

The easiest person to deceive is one's self.

I love 'Wild 'N Out' so much - one, because it's my baby, but also I get to see others succeed and go on to lead their own careers.

Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape.

If there is any trouble within your heart - be free, in the name of Jesus Christ

George [Clooney] and I do have the aim one day to be in a film where we say one nice thing to each other. Hopefully one day.

War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.