Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

[A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Once a wolf, always a wolf.

Courage emerges as you climb over the circumstances that threaten to bury you! But you must be willing to climb to find courage.

First I lost my heart. Then I lost my mind.

There is a humility about genuine love that is rather horrible in some ways.

It is the goldsmith who can assay the gold.

You're not good for me when you're not mine.

Algeria is not breaking up.

A great wine served in fine glassware is beautiful. But it is also seductive and full of strange promise and perhaps the slightest hint of naughtiness, all waiting to be uncoiled.

My first job was working in a dress shop in Los Angeles in 1940, for $7 a week.

Do you remember when everyone began analyzing Beatles songs..I don't think I ever understood what some of them were supposed to be about