Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title. The thing is perfectly harmless in itself, but it marks a sort of foppery in the human character, which degrades 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.

I like to comepletly give in to the emotion. If i pretend I´m not sad, if I try smiling through it, and pretend like everything´s fine, it makes it worse. When i give in and let it out, I feel better.

No one has the right to threaten the health, education, and well-being of children by involving them in illegal or inappropriate work.

I'm addicted to directing!

Fighters with 13 fights are winning world titles, and of course they don't know how to behave.

To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment

Learning to live again without you is killing me.

Painting is... a richer language than words... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of painting are much closer to the objects themselves.

[The historical] development in the international system may almost be defined as the process by which we pass from stable war to stable peace.

Sympathy is a shallow stream in the souls of those who have not suffered.

The problem is, we have yet to convince the Taliban they are fellow passengers on spaceship Earth.