We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything.

Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.

Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers

When you shut down vulnerability, you shut down opportunity

Misuse of reason might yet return the world to pre-technological night; plenty of religious zealots hunger for just such a result, and are happy to use the latest technology to effect it.

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

I accept the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, to represent the State of Illinois.

What makes human power erupt like a volcano? What destroy's it? The civilizations of Rome, Greece, Egypt, China were all eruptions from a human core.

Today barbarism has taken over many city streets, or people fear it has, which comes to much the same thing in the end.

It's not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.

I once started out to walk around the world but ended up in Brooklyn, that Bridge was too much for me.

I always think you should push your envelope every chance you get.

A man can be a parent without knowing it: a woman cannot.