Those who wish to be ignorant and free, believe in something that never was and never shall be.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

Truth between candid minds can never do harm.

The government you elect is the government you deserve.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

My body was a buzzing antenna into which radio waves flooded from the entire cosmos. I was the living switchboard of the universe. My skull was a magnetized globe.

Where logic reaches, religion leaves.

This is the thing about fairy tales: You have to live through them, before you get to happily ever after. That ever after has to be earned, and not everyone makes it that far.

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

We live in a beauty-obsessed age and success sometimes appears to hinge solely on the presentation of an image that is acceptable to the press.

Letting go of control, that's actually when you're safe.

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to.

I was in the underground until I left Germany.

Experiments work when, and only when, they call into action cognitive capacities that might reliably deliver the conclusions drawn.

It is so difficult to make a neat job of killing people with whom one is not on friendly terms.