This is my religion ... joy and exaltation in my own existence ... so go ahead and snarl ... bite ... howl, you Calvinistic divines and all you who say I am no Christian. I say you are not Christian.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

Always stand on principle even if you stand alone.

But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three is a Congress.

The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.

Kitten, you still haven’t told her? Blimey, whatare you waiting for?”“The Second Coming of Christ!” I snapped.

Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway, " the priest added cynically, "which is why the church locks them all up in mental hospitals and euphemistically calls these institutions monasteries.

With words as valueless as poker chips, we play games whose object it is to keep us from seeing each other's cards.

A gold cage is still a cage.-King David IOh, go cry in a bag of money.-Queen Christina

Get in over your head as often and as joyfully as possible.

Thoughts of your mind have made you what you are and thoughts of your mind will make you what you become from this day forward.

Nature can be trusted to work her own miracle in the heart of any man whose daily task keeps him alone among her sights, sounds and silences.

I think now I'm just excited to continue directing and find stories that inspire me and bring those to the screen.

One day my dad said, "If you guys ever stop singing, I'll drop you like a hot potato." That's what he said. It hurt me. You don't say that to children and I never forgot it.

If she be fair and wise, fairness and wit, The one's for use, the other useth it.