The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.

The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education.

The profit of the one is the profit of the other.

The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.

...for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.

When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

There are two principles between which there can be no compromise—liberty and coercion.

The law is guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish.

I cannot possibly understand how fraternity can be legally enforced without liberty being legally destroyed...

. . . for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.

This girl who's slept a hundred years has something after all. It's called Centuryitis, and it has turned me into a man. Oh, what will mamma think when she sees me?!-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz

Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's thechoices we make that define who we really are.

Dreams free us from normality. Daydreams, especially, take us somewhere between the real world and the dream world.

Yes, everything is simple. It's people who complicate things.

It is not for nothing that a man's best friends sigh when he marries, especially if he is a man of genius.

I had an empathy for prisoners and did concerts for them back when I thought that it would make a difference - you know? - that they really were there to be rehabilitated.

The only real access that I have to my mind is when I'm writing.

My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.

When you get before great people you don't talk a lot, you ask questions

Perfection is not very communicative