The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.

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.

There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it like a wild stallion.

We are all artists

Choose wisely From those who start A fire in your heart. Some may burn you to shreds, While you were looking for warmth.

I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us

I cry alot-I dont know why, but it just helps me. I cry over bad and good stuff-sometimes sadness can be beautiful

All the things I used to like - cookies, ice cream, gumbo - I don't like anymore.

I'd rather be a flop at show business than to be a success at something I didn't like.

Not only do the brave get killed, but the brave have a better chance of it.

Each new film is like a trial. Before I step in front of the camera, I do not know whether I am going to fall or whether I am going to fly - and that is exactly the way I want it to stay.

The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest in angles and colors, but beholds the design,--he will presently undervalue the actual object.