The state is a social relationship; a certain way of people relating to one another. It can be destroyed by creating new social relationships; ie, by people relating to one another differently.

The real transformation of society will come only in love, in work, and in stillness.

Anarchism's lone objective is to reach a point at which the belligerence of some humans against humanity, in whatever form, comes to a halt.

If I want to transform patriotism then I do not proceed in the slightest against the fine fact of the nation but against the mixing up of the nation and the state.

We are the state, and we shall continue to be the state until we have created the institutions that form a real community and society of men.

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Oh God, what's wrong with me? Why does nothing ever work out?

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us.

I believe you can make forces of good and evil work for you, to get what you want.

I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

Take a dose of medicine once, and in all probability you will be obliged to take an additional hundred afterwards

Intelligence is that aspect of human cognition that we haven't managed to emulate yet.

Gratitude begins where my sense of entitlement ends.

Never let a boy be your life. They can live in your world, but never make a guy your world.