Those physical difficulties which you cannot account for, be very slow to arraign; for he that would be wiser than Nature would be wiser than God.

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove.

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.

The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny.

I don't care whether animals are capable of thinking; all I care about is that they are capable of suffering!

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.

Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.

It is with government as with medicine, its only business is the choice of evils. Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.

Life is an ocean and every ocean necessitates right thinking and right action or else sinking becomes the only fate realisable!

I'm one of the most fortunate people in the world.

Damien is Damien. When I don't put him in the squad my mother, who's 84, asks 'why isn't Damien playing?' She kills me about it and that's true

I've never done well when I've been appreciated. I've done best when I'm targeted for death.

You can't do sweatpants... ladies, number one cause of divorce in America, sweatpants, no!

It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

What is the sound of one hand clapping? What is the weight of a single grain of sand? The answer is equal to my interest in the message you are about to leave. So make it short.

The soul needs attention like the body needs to breath.

When real revival happens, it changes the moral climate of a community...because we've turned from our wicked ways.