There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.

The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority

...I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.

I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.

You could make me say it again, " he whispered. "Make me say it always. Make me say it so often that you never have cause to doubt. I love you.

If he wouldn't take charge of this, she would. "Take off your clothes.

It is quite common for people to focus on the problem rather than the solutions.

Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right.

But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort.

I recognize that there are some great things about not playing a song live, and just kind of piecing it together as you go.

It's less frustrating if someone recognizes me for it [ Pretty Reckless ]; it's more frustrating that I still get asked about it.

At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.

When I talk to people outside the beltway, I don't think people are that divided.

If I wanted to be a doctor today I'd go to math school not med school.