Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.

Nothing develops intelligence like travel.

Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.

Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.

Respectable people... What bastards!

Saying thanks costs nothing but gives everything.

I would have kept you safe, ' he said.I closed my eyes, forcing the tears down my cheek to break against the dam of his fingers. 'I know.

Freedom for freedoms sake."~R. Alan Woods [2006]

The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.

I believe in financial retirement. I don't necessarily believe in physical retirement.

A good bathe when you really need it can get you over almost anything.

I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.

Movie making is really, it's a director's medium, it's not even so much an actor's medium.

In their work, then, as in their play, men and women are more and more coming to share with each other as comrades, and really the fun of life seems in no wise diminished as a consequence.

I can still improve a lot, but there is definitely a limit to what the human body can do.