To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.

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.

Just being alive should make you late for everything. In case you've never noticed, the dead are always on time.

Is that love, do you think?" he asks, sounding genuinely curious. "Being crazy about someone no matter how much they hurt you?

Real accomplishments do virtually nothing to serve me and they do everything to serve others. Anything less is nothing more than a meaningless task dressed in the deceptive finery of accomplishments.

A hopeless man is a very desperate and dangerous man, almost a dead man.

Have you ever wondered which hurts more:Saying something and wishing you hadn't, or saying nothing and wishing you had?

As I got older I looked at the world and I realised, we need armour. So my jewellery and clothes became my armour

Bill Clinton may in fact be moving back into the White House. And coincidentally I'm thinking about moving back into my mother's house.

Trust is not bound up with knowledge so much as it is with freedom, the openness to the unknown.

One good, hearty laugh is a bombshell exploding in the right place, while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over the man who shoots it off.

I am such a gearhead. In my recording studio, I personally engineer and edit everything on computers.