Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.

Freedom is the power to choose our own chains

The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?

Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.

I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.

No one is happy unless he respects himself.

Fear gives people their humanity. Fear of loss.

You are only a poor person if you are not happy with what you have.

We have yet to establish a permanent Mars colony for this reason: Trying to colonize Mars with humans is a known suicide mission that no one is talking about.

What science-fiction premises do is it gives you a "what-if" prism to look at the contemporary world with a wack on the side of the head.

His letter was like the shock produced by a cold bath.

I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.

The power of our beliefs can work in either direction to become life affirming or life denying.

It occurred to me that we live in a lunatic world where the only way to maintain peace is to have an enormous war-making machine.

What does this system seem designed to do? As I see it, it seems designed to send people right back to prison, which is what happens about 70% of the time.

As a child, I remember I always wanted to make my parents happy and give them everything in their lives.