[To learn] is to harness Nature; to spare man all that is most physical, backbreaking, and brutish in the work of production; to make mind master over matter.

When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.

If philanthropy is not voluntary, it destroys liberty and justice. The law can give nothing that has not first been taken from its owner.

When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.

The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.

There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a more alarming situation.

In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?

Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.

Yesterday is gone, live for today and leave a legacy for tomorrow.

- But we can't help falling in love. - We can't help defecating either. But we can choose where and when we are going to do it.

People shouldn't dwell on the past. It's enough to try your best in all that you're doing now.

A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?

A person who has power has an open mind. Their mind is open and they can see on other levels. Seeing is a quality that comes to a person who has personal power.

It's a good feeling, that you can put your heart out there, no matter how black it is, and people can understand it.

When I think back kind of on starting my career, the last place I thought I would be would be spending a lot of time in Brooklyn.

Televisions and movies have made many Americans into habitual consumers of synthetic experience-audiovisual fantasies that simply pass the time.

Under so much pressure and the situation that I was in, that was the personality that came across with me.

The greatest obstacle to love is fear. It has been the source of all defects in human behavior throughout the ages.